Day 34 Levis QC to Montreal QC

 October 7 2022 

Dark and gloomy as we headed out.

What should have been a 3 hour drive ended up being 4 hours due to traffic leaving Levis and entering Montreal. We also had the most rain we've had the entire trip.

As we left the hotel, which is on the side of the highway I checked the traffic and there was a 103 minute delay on highway A73 south which runs from the US border to northern Quebec. 40 minute delay on A20, our route.

The culprit.

I can't help it, the colours are magnificent. Mother Nature outdid herself this year.

Unusual saints.

It is a challenge for English drivers figuring out the signs.

And then it rained.

No idea what this is, anyone?

One of the bridges to get onto the island of Montreal, where it is illegal to make a right turn on a red light.

Shell of the US Expo 67 pavilion. 

Crossing Pont Champlain.


The Samuel De Champlain Bridge, colloquially known as the Champlain Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge design by architect Poul Ove Jensen and built to replace the original Champlain Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River, between Nuns' Island in the borough of Verdun in Montreal and the suburban city of Brossard on the South Shore. 

The new span is located just north of the original Champlain Bridge, which is currently being demolished. The new bridge carries eight lanes of automobile traffic of the A-10, A-15, and A-20, with one lane in each direction dedicated for buses. It also includes a multi-use lane for cyclists and pedestrians. The central portion of the bridge deck, still under construction, will carry the South Shore branch of the forthcoming Réseau express métropolitain (REM) automated light rail system. At 60 metres (200 ft) wide, the new Champlain Bridge is the widest cable-stayed bridge in the world that uses two planes of cables.
It is one of the largest infrastructure projects ever built in North America and with an estimated 59 million vehicles a year, one of the busiest crossings on the continent. It is built to last 125 years with the usage of stainless steel and high-performance concrete, and replaces the previous 57-year-old bridge, which has become functionally obsolete and its structure having been degraded by the repeated application of de-icing salt.

I have read Montreal bloggers talking about the pink house and we went by it!!

The Malting plant and elevators were built in 1905 by the Canada Malting Co. Large cement silos were added in the 1940s to store the barley.
The company exported the malt along the Lachine Canal, and when the canal closed to commercial navigation in 1970, the transportation cost rose to the point that the company abandoned the site in 1980.
Since then, it's fallen into disrepair. Windows are boarded up, brick walls are crumbling, and the façade is covered in graffiti.

It's still a mystery as to who climbed up and painted the cabin pink and decorates the houses for the holidays.

We check in to the Hilton Garden Inn and head out to family for dinner.

Monday Mural

I'm linking up at Monday Mural

February 2018 - Mazatlan Mexico

We took a walk before we picked up our fried chicken order from Linda Lee.

I cultivate a White Rose
by José Martí

I grow a white rose
in June as January
for the sincere friend
who gives me his outspoken hand.

And for the cruel one who tears out
my heart with which I live,
thistle or nettle cultivation;
I grow the white rose.

Monday Mural

I'm linking up at Monday Mural hosted by Oakland Daily Photo.


March 2017 - Carmel California

On Terry's patio, a restaurant in the Cypress Inn.


Dubbed one of the most dog-friendly hotels in the world thanks to its co-owner, Hollywood star Doris Day


Charlie Chaplin mural by Mr. Brainwash – a French-born street artist linked to Banksy.Mr. Brainwash (often written MBW) is a name used by French-born, Los Angeles-based street artist Thierry Guetta. According to the 2010 Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop you've got to love the title), Guetta was a proprietor of a used clothing store, where he began as a security guard, and amateur videographer who was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader, and who filmed street artists through the 2000s and "evolved" into an artist in his own right in a matter of weeks after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy.

Song-ography

Here's a new fun meme to join! You'll Shoot Your Eye Out rules are:

1.  Would be kinda cool if you would link back to my blog somewhere...ANYWHERE
2.  Would be kinda cool if you "followed" me.  Not to the bathroom or anything creepy...just here in blog-land.
3.  Please link up using your permalink URL.
4.  Photos MAY or MAY NOT be recently taken.  Heck, sometimes you might see a song title and think "I ALREADY have an amaaaaaaazing photograph for that song title!"  No reason you shouldn't use it.  Amazing is amazing regardless of when it's taken, right?
5.  Would be kinda cool if you'd visit some of the other participants and leave a kind word or two.  I'm from Philly, and you KNOW we have a rep for being the kindest and friendliest peeps in the world :)
6.  You may have one photo,  or drop a photo bomb of photos in your link up post.  Just please make sure your photo(s) are an interpretation of the song title for the week. 
7.  Link-up will be available beginning Sunday mornings.
8.  Tell lots, and LOTS of your blogging friends so I don't feel like I'm sitting at the school lunch table all by myself on Sunday morning.  I don't want to be a "Lonesome Loser" and have to post a photo about it.Got it?  Sunday, link up, song titles, photographs that are interpretations, a mash up I'm calling Song-ography, be there...YO.



This week's challenge:

We spent two months last winter in Las Vegas and these are some photos we took over the period of December to February.

                                                                                "Pink"

Pink it's my new obsession 
Pink it's not even a question, 
Pink on the lips of your lover, 'cause 
Pink is the love you discover 

Pink as the bing on your cherry 
Pink 'cause you are so very 
Pink it's the color of passion 
'Cause today it just goes with the fashion 

Pink it was love at first sight 
Pink when I turn out the light, and 
Pink gets me high as a kite 
And I think everything is going to be all right 
No matter what we do tonight 

You could be my flamingo 
'Coz pink is the new kinda lingo 
Pink like a deco umbrella 
It's kink - but you don't ever tell her 

Pink it was love at first sight, and 
Pink when I turn out the light 
Pink gets me high as a kite 
And I think everything is going to be all right 
No matter what we do tonight 

I want to be your lover 
I wanna wrap you in rubber 
As pink as the sheets that we lay on 
Pink it's my favorite crayon, yeah 

Pink it was love at first sight 
Pink when I turn out the light 
Pink it's like red but not quite 
And I think everything is going to be all right 
No matter what we do tonight