So goodbye USA and hello Canada or actually Quebec. Before you enter Canada you have to download an app on your phone called ArriveCAN, give them all your info (shoe size, favorite color,..) take pictures of your vaccination card and passport (did not work??), and then when you show up at the border they have the dogs ready and verify your shoe size. A little confusion about only having one licence plate (Arizona), and surprise that we drove all the way from Arizona just to go to Quebec. Actually very nice lady there and pretty easy-peasy.
The phones actually do work here and we cross our fingers that we don't have a thousand dollar bill waiting at home like when we went to the Bahamas (AT&T said just $15 per day).
The road to Montreal has not changed since when I came here in the 1960's (Expo) and the dozens of times we came here when we lived in VT. When you enter Quebec, you instantly feel the differences in houses and signs. It's like being in Europe. And they have quietly removed almost all of the English language signs so it is french french french everywhere. They just passed a new law (Bill 96) that tightens the language restrictions even more (remove those tags in your underwear and replace with french ones, etc). Feels like they are heading for secession again (they tried twice before).
Google got us right to to Jake & Nath's street and Jacob was waiting on the sidewalk with their dog Tyler, we parked the car on the street (good until Thursday, we leave Weds) and went for a short walk and coffee. We got our bags and checked in at the airB&B. Back to Jake & Nath's then out to a great Italian place for a night catching up over dinner.
It spit rain the entire way up to Canada and then rained pretty hard once we go here so raincoats and umbrellas which we had to remember how to use after living in Bisbee the last two years.
Tomorrow we tour around Montreal.
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