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October 11, 2023. Montreal to Home.
Today was our last day in Montreal. We needed to checkout of The David by 11 but our flight wasn’t until 6:50pm. So the hotel allowed us to store our bags in their office while we toured the city a little more. The first order of business however … coffee! The espresso machine in our…
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October 10, 2023. Montreal.
Our final day in Montreal celebrating Lorna’s birthday today! We had a relaxing morning at The David before we headed off at 10. The plan was to walk to the nearest Metro station and take it to the Atwater station where we’d visit the Marche Atwater (Atwater Market) like the grand one we visited the…
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October 9, 2023. Montreal.
Yesterday, Lorna found an interesting guided walking tour called “Old Montreal: Off the Beaten Path” and signed up for it today. Before we left the hotel for the walk to the meeting point, I emptied our garbage down this chute which was to the left of our elevator. I think that was a first for…
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October 8, 2023. Montreal.
Lorna had the great idea yesterday to book us on a small group, full-day Montreal city tour for today. We were instructed to meet our tour guide/driver at the nearby Embassy Suites at 9:30. It was a short walk from The David and we were a little early. Our guide texted me that he was…
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October 7, 2023. Quebec City to Montreal.
Today, we ventured back to Montreal for the last days of this wide-ranging trip. Leaving the Hotel du Vieux-Quebec was hard as it was such a nice place to stay. And since we wanted to return the car in Montreal (as there’s no need for a car in the city), we needed to return it…
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October 6, 2023. Quebec City.
In reading about our hotel in the review comments section of Google Maps (great easy resource as lots of folks like to share their experiences there), several posters mentioned the breakfast basket delivered to your door. We awoke to this… The view of town earlier this morning. Not much was happening yet but this area…
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October 5, 2023. Clayton to Quebec City, Canada.
Started the day with a beautiful sunrise off our deck… After showering. I saw this on the sink counter and had to laugh… Today we traveled about 330 miles (roughly 5 1/2 hours) from Clayton to Quebec City. It’s a pretty straight shot with divided two-lane highways most of the way. We first traversed the…
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October 4, 2023. Ithaca to Clayton (Thousand Islands), NY.
We had a nice leisurely early morning at the Inn and then took off around 9:30 to our next destination, Clayton up near the Canadian border. We wanted to find a place somewhere between Ithaca and Quebec City and Lorna found Clayton as an interesting place to visit on Pinterest. Only about a 2 1/2…
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October 3, 2023. Ithaca.
Today, we explored Ithaca and specifically Cornell University and the Lab of Ornithology. But first, we needed our morning coffee. The Inn has a cool coffee machine on the ground floor in a large conservatory-like room with lots of light and actual live plants. Some of the other common areas at the Argos… Today was…
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October 2, 2023. Cooperstown to Ithaca, NY.
We awoke to heavy fog outside our hotel window. Today, we ventured from Cooperstown to Ithaca, where Cornell University and its world-renowned Laboratory of Ornithology is located. In High School, I was thinking of going there to study ornithology but really didn’t have the grades to get in so I went in a different direction.…
East Coast Road Trip: From Clemson to Montreal 