"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
10/23/2015 at 10:30 • Filed to: Cavalier roadtrip
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
10/23/2015 at 10:30 • Filed to: Cavalier roadtrip | 7
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Hello!! If you’ve been following, you know that I am recounting my awesome roadtrip I took with Ms. Bigbossyboss. In day 2 we drove from Edmundston down to Charlottetown PEI. We also had many stops along the way.
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TL DR version: Went to Mccain Fry Factory...saw giant axe in Nackiwac, and drove over the mighty Confederation Bridge to PEI. That’s some dayum bridge mate!!
Remarks: We left Edmundston in the morning and headed down about 125 kms to town of Florenceville-Bristol New Brunswick. Now, most of you have never heard of Florenceville I am guessing. But open up your freezer and take a look at the bag of fries you got in there. Guess where that came from? Odds are it came from Florenceville. Northern New Brunswick is potato country and the factory at Florenceville-Bristol supplies about 3/4ths of North America’s fries. Including all the fries for Mcdonald’s. That my friends, is a lot of fries. Of course, I had to go to the potato museum :) Great day for potato’s!!!!
From here we took a most excellent drive along NB 105 down to the town of Hartland. Hartland has the longest covered bridge......*jeremy clarkson voice* “in the wuuuurrrlllddd”. It is 1,282 feet long. You can both drive and walk across. And we did both.
From there we got back on the main road (NB highway 2) and headed south. Unlike most provinces, it seems that the further south you go in New Brunswick the less there is. I thought northern New Brunswick was empty, but then I got to southern NB and realized the north is less empty haha.
We stopped in the mighty town of Nackiwac NB for a picture with the giant axe. Luckily I of course had my small axe for scale.
From here we drove on, hit the last exit in New Brunswick (exit 513B) and drove over the mighty Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island. Driving across the
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is both awe inspiring but somewhat unpleasant. I’ll talk about that when I wrap up days 3 and 4 tomorrow.
By the time we got to Charlottetown it was about 9pm.
Margin Of Error
> thebigbossyboss
10/23/2015 at 10:40 |
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You passed by my place and didn’t stop for a Peachschnapps ?
gin-san - shitpost specialist
> thebigbossyboss
10/23/2015 at 10:42 |
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I wish they'd spell it like Clarkson says it.
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gin-san - shitpost specialist
> thebigbossyboss
10/23/2015 at 10:44 |
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Without ever having been to Florenceville (and honestly, probably reading about it for the first time) I love them. French fries are the best, despite the toll on health and stuff, but they’re so, so delicious, and form the awesome base for poutine, which is French fries at the next level.
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thebigbossyboss
> Margin Of Error
10/23/2015 at 10:44 |
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Apparently yes haha.
Justin Hughes
> thebigbossyboss
10/23/2015 at 10:45 |
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At first I was going to ask why you didn’t just cut across Maine. Then I remembered that there aren’t any roads that do that! It was probably quicker to loop around “Occupied Canada” instead.
Totally agree about NB. On my motorcycle trip to Cape Breton Island I started by riding the secondary roads, but I got bored and the pavement was crap, so I skipped up to NB 2 and took that most of the way across.
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thebigbossyboss
> Justin Hughes
10/23/2015 at 10:51 |
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I just read your post. Nice trip!! I was there about a month before you. When people in Ontario complain about the roads I am like “oh shush” ontario has the best roads in the country by far.
There are very few roads through northern maine. Mostly dirt tracks.
MonkeePuzzle
> thebigbossyboss
10/23/2015 at 10:57 |
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I quite like your potato museum picture taken with a potato
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thebigbossyboss
> MonkeePuzzle
10/23/2015 at 11:03 |
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Thanks
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Justin Hughes
> thebigbossyboss
10/23/2015 at 11:34 |
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I took my trip in July 2013, so I think I was there first. :)
I highly recommend continuing on to Cape Breton Island and doing the Cabot Trail at some point. Wonderful area, amazing people, beautiful scenery. I need to go back someday.
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thebigbossyboss
> Justin Hughes
10/23/2015 at 13:12 |
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Oh that -part wasn’t obvious...whoops.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> thebigbossyboss
10/24/2015 at 08:41 |
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useless fact number one , i live less than 3km from McCains factory in Ballarat.
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thebigbossyboss
> pip bip - choose Corrour
10/24/2015 at 14:25 |
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That is a useless fact! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for reading.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> thebigbossyboss
10/25/2015 at 19:48 |
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Where are you moving to mate? You’re in my neck of the woods now, roughly...I live around Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia! :)
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thebigbossyboss
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/25/2015 at 19:50 |
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This was pre move. I am moving to Prince George BC now.