Day 18 - PEI to Bathurst, New Brunswick

I doubt any of you have ever ventured to Northern New Brunswick. The drive felt a lot like Washington state: endless evergreen trees. However, there was one difference: the moose signs everywhere. One section of road had so many accidents that they are putting up fence to keep the moose from crossing. Thankfully, we didn't see any. I should state that prior to our 4 hour drive here we spent from 11 to 3 in PEI. We went to the Green Gables House. I thought we had hit every Anne of Green Gables site in the last two days, but we missed the main one. It is tucked off the road and is a Canadian National Park, which threw me off when I had passed it before. The house is a short walk from LM Montgomery's house she was raised in. It belonged to a relative and inspired the setting for the book. Its interesting that the Canadian National Park house had no artifacts from LM Montgomery. All of the artifacts were at the smaller private "museums". Its almost seems that certain folks hung onto the artifacts and created their own museums rather than giving them to the Canadian National Park house. After touring the Green Gables house, we ventured to Charlottetown (the capital of PEI) to see a sand sculpture exhibit. The sculptures were amazing! Despite all of that, the highlight of my day was checking in the the small campground here in Bathurst. The campground is situated next to a strawberry patch (self pick and pay) and they are owned by the same folks. When I asked the lady at check-in how much the strawberries cost she gave me two buckets and said, since you've come so far, its on the house. To top it off, she then gave me a third bucket she had picked herself and said, "enjoy them for breakfast". There is nothing like fresh strawberries. If you are ever in this area, this campground comes highly recommended (they even have wireless Internet!). Tomorrow we will drive to Riviere du Loop, Quebec. I'm almost certain that won't have Internet access. So I'll check back in when I get to Quebec city on Friday. I almost forgot....We broke 2000 miles today. We entered PEI around mile 1640 and left around mile 1850.