Quebec City to San Simeon

Quebec City to San Simeon
We left Quebec City and our campsite on the lake this morning. It had rained all night long and this morning it was somewhat overcast, so all in all our nice sunny days in the city were great for sightseeing.
You can really see the trees changing color now all over there are colors of red, burgundy red, yellow and a golden kind of yellow. It seem that the fall colors have finally arrived. We stayed to the north side the St Lawrence River (so wht’s one more ferry crossing) and went up Hwy 40 and then over to Hwy 138. Now, at Baie- St -Paul we took what was supposed to be the scenic route along the river to San Simeon.
Well if it were not for the fog which was as thick as any we encountered in Oregon maybe you could see the coastline and the wonderful tree colors. Then there were the mountains. Although the Laurentis Mountain Range is not supposed to be high (in fact it is supposed to be well worn down) we encountered as much as 13% grades. I have not seen that since British Columbia and Alaska. This is however supposed to be the oldest mountain range in the world.
We stopped at the town of Ste-Anne-de –Beaupre so that Bev could see the Basilica there. It truly was probably the largest Basilica that we have seen so far. Dedicated to Ste Anne and purported to have hundreds of miracles for the sick and infirmed it is really impressive with chapels on the main level and then another chapel in the basement. They even had a complete campground style parking area for RV’s for the millions of pilgrims who come there yearly.
Well now we are in the Campground du Municipale du San Simeon. This is nice in that it is right on the water of the St Lawrence River and next to the ferry dock. I want to ask the weather report from the campground people when they arrive at 6:00 pm and we may stay here a day or so if the weather is going to improve.
Now the St Lawrence River has widened so much that we can not see to the other side.
Well so far no internet but that may change by tonight, so stay tuned folks and I may yet be able to get a blog out.
Lorne
1 St Anne de Deauprie
2 Inside the basilica
3 Baie Saint Paul
4 Inside the Basilica of St Anne
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