Tues 18 Sept

Last morning in Maine. The porch is set for our final breakfast at Kingsleigh Inn. I hope to get some of our things packed up in the car so we can make a quick exit when we finish eating. We will stop, per the innkeeper's suggestion, at a little lobster pound on the way off the island to pick up lobster rolls to put in the cooler for lunch, but our gas tank is full and we shall be off for our longest driving day to Kingston, ON. Looooong day! We got a good start from the inn right after breakfast, and it didn't take very long to pick up beautiful lobster salad sandwiches on the way out. It did take all morning to drive through beautiful rural northern Maine roads up to the Canada border. We passed Sugarloaf, a US training center. We pulled off on a little sideout just before the border to eat our lunch, adding a couple of fresh apples and a bottle of milk from the gas station. Once we got into Quebec, the predicted rain started and remained the rest of the day with minimal breaks. It is always disconcerting to drive through Quebec since I don't remember most of the French I had learned and haven't yet gotten serious enough to start using the resources you provided. We stopped at an information center to get directions past Montreal to Kingston. The gentleman was nice but they are very provincial there; he had to go on Google to find directions all the way to Kingston, and then had to figure out how to print them in English. They directed us through Montreal in town areas which took a very long time to navigate at rush hour. We did not get in to Kingston til after 8 pm. The B&B owners were very gracious. We paid long distance charges to call ahead for directions, but it was worth it to go directly to the home. They welcomed us warmly and even provided some extra milk so we could eat a bowl of Shreddies for our dinner.