DAY 1 - On the Road from New York to the Canada-US Border

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DAY 1 (Sept 11) - On the Road from New York to the US-Canada Border

Time to leave the City, at last! It’s been nine months since we’ve been on vacation (since our Train Trek in December). Way too long…

We were fast this morning as we wanted to pick up our rental car from the Dollar Rent-a-Car Agency, a ten-minute walk. Little did we know we would be detoured to get to the rental place due to the September 11 ceremonies at the World Trade Center location.

We ended up walking almost a mile since we had to walk around several blocks. We finally arrived, warm and sweaty (a cloudy but humid day in New York), to the rental office. The rental guy was very nice and gave us a brand new 2022 Honda Civic car.

Back at our apartment building, Jim went back to our apartment to get our luggage while I parked in the street right in front of our building (yes, amazingly, there was a parking spot on this Sunday morning!).

After loading the car, we set up our GPS for today’s destination: Redcliffe Shore Motor Inn in Robbinston, Maine, right at the border with Canada.

The weather was perfect for driving: cloudy and not too hot, so no glaring sun on us. The drive was pretty much uneventful and NO TRAFFIC… very nice. We made it to the Redclyffe Shore Motor Inn in Robbinston, ME after driving 581 miles (935 km) just after 5:30pm.

On the right-hand side, you can see our rental car parked in front of our motel room.

After checking in, we drove a few minutes away from the motel to a local restaurant called the New Friendly Restaurant. Like Jim said, it was a boui-boui… we order fried-everything (haddock, clams, shrimp, and scallops) and our dinner came “carbonisé” with the “ploucs du coin” (Jim Le Snob said it in French, not me) who seemed to appreciate the food. Being our first day, we didn’t want to complain so we ate it all… I still picked off the “carbonisé” batter. Hopefully, we will get better meals on our trip!

Then it was off to bed… not much more to say about our first day traveling.