It was already hot when we left the provincial park and stopped to fill up In Edmundston to avoid needing gas in Quebec where it is more expensive. It turned out to be a longer motoring day than we had planned for two reasons. First, we had forgotten we would gain an hour crossing into Quebec and E.S.T. When we passed the first construction zone and didn't see a single worker, it dawned on us ....near the end of June .. Quebec's national holiday: Saint John Baptist Day. Even grocery stores were closed. We called ahead to reserve a site back at Camping Alouette.
Holiday traffic was much heavier but moving well. We made three stops at Haltes Routières and one more stop at a service station to buy milk before arriving at the campground around 3:00. It was 37º "felt like" 42º. You could hardly see the water in the pool there were so many people in it! Our air conditioner really had a workout with the high demand on power in the campground. We motored 506 km.