The Count Down Begins....

With only 11 days until we complete our year long journey to cache on every day of the year we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! We cold not have picked a better year to embark on this journey.
With very few exceptions, the weather has been fantastic! Even though a few snow storms threatened, they never did materialize. Yes there were some very cold days, some rainy days and most recently the hot and humid days, over all the weather Gods looked kindly upon our task.

So how to we end this journey? And we have decided to take a road trip east. Those of you that know us well, know that this direction was not our original plan. Back in January, we had high ideals of heading to Idaho to complete a series of caches that form a fighter jet! Sounded way cool, but we couldn't fit it into our schedule. Then it was a road trip through the US.  A very busy driving schedule that would have seen us cross through at least 5 states in about 8 days. That was the plan up until just two weeks ago. Then someone finally started participating in the decision process and suggested a trip to Nova Scotia. The idea actually sounded good, a chance to visit my baby brother who lives there and visit parts of the country I have never been to.
The road trip will bring us back into Ontario before we hit the 366th day, but I will do my best to blog about the last 10 days of this incredible adventure. (Elaine, I can see you rolling your eyes!)

This morning we left Brampton just around 6:30am and before we even hit Mississauga, we were stuck behind an accident. Gotta love city traffic. After getting by the accident, traffic seemed to move smoothly. A friend told us about the Big Apple just outside of Coburg and we made a quick pit stop here, hoping to get one of their famous turnovers. It was too early, and I had to settle for an apple fritter instead. However, there was a cache not too far away, and we decided to go for it and pick up one of the TB's.

Then it was back on the road. We drove for another two plus hours stopping for lunch at one of the service centres that had an amazing picnic area (which also included a cache).

Here's PapaGomes reaching for the cache, even in the middle of the day, this little forest area was buzzing with mosquito's.

Back to the road...this time I got to drive!! However, that didn't last long. MG is a terrible passenger and couldn't stand being in that seat for too long.

There is a lot of construction on the roads in Quebec, we missed an exit and had to do a turn around. A perfect opportunity to pick up an urban cache. Since neither of us can understand anything more then basic French, we chose an easy 1-1 cache. It was nothing really special, and the log book was soaked so we couldn't sign. :(

Then back to the road..with MG back in the drivers seat. And we drove and drove and we drove...I was getting so bored I began texting anyone who would respond! Thanks to N, E and C for keeping me entertained during the afternoon.

We managed to push through and drive until just after 5pm. We are stopped in a small town called Montmagny in Quebec. Tomorrow it's on to Halifax!

Good Night