75 miles, 2561 ft of climbing from Campbellton New Brunswick to Val Brilliant.

Beautiful day, nice and warm but not too hot, and all the climbing was that about 1%. I followed the Matapédia River for almost 60 miles. It was like riding a rail trail it was so gradually up. Early morning traffic was light, but if I’m much busier today we’re on with lots of trucks and campers heading in both directions. Later in the afternoon we got off of the main road 132 and we’re on some lovely back roads. Hard to tell the terrain from Pennsylvania except that the majority of the trees here are pine.

We’re camping tonight in Val Brilliant, Quebec on the lake that feeds the river. Beautiful night to follow the beautiful day, the rain expected tomorrow so we’re getting up at Dawn and hope to be on the bikes by 6:00 to get as far as we can before the rain hits. We’ll be getting to Rimouski and staying with Philip again.

The interprovincial bridge from the NB side
Looking back into New Brunswick from Quebec
Our trip today Father this river and railroad for 60 miles
Am I in Lancaster?
Very long covered bridge
Same bridge from the outside
Yay, another woman saint., Complete with camping bingo and mud drags!
Lunch stop in St Florence
I missed the finished product of lumber, but here are the stacks of raw wood.
And a little down the road was the seedling farm
Cool bike bridge we crossed
Bollards on the bike bridge
An homage to workers who built a covered bridge
Another view
Translation of the sign posted by the memorial
The bridge the memorial was about
Right down from the bridge there was a fly fisherman
Cathedral in Val brilliant
Camping at Lake Matapédia
Our camp site at Val Brilliant, Lake Matapédia
Cruisers and a cat anchored at sunset
Hoping red sky at night works for us tomorrow