Part Twelve | Gaspé Peninsula Trip Summary

Ultimate Ride Ep 12

If you’ve been following this season’s Ultimate Ride each week then you know that last fall Norm and I flew out to Quebec City looking to spend four days exploring the roads that both dissect and rim the famous Gaspé peninsula.  Our ultimate destination was the famous Percé Rock and the roads that hugged both the St. Lawrence and the Baie des Chaleaur to our delight were without a doubt some of the nicest most picturesque roads in Canada.  But there were some other surprises along the way that reinforced just way Norma and I make these annual trips every fall – fourteen so far.  In Historic Gaspé we satisfied our tireless thirst for early Canadian history, this time going all the way back to 1534 then there was the morning, when searching out a free lunch from Norm’s sister in Matapedia, we stumbled along one of the longest bridges in North America.   And then there was the terrific scenery in seemingly deserted highway one thirty two that took us out to Percé Rock.  Over all it was a great road trip and certainly one of our best Ultimate Rides so how do you top that?

Dave

So Norm, first of all, I can’t believe we’ve been doing this for fourteen years and second of all, here we are talking about doing our fifteenth ride and we have just got over watching the fourteenth in Gaspé and your impressions looking back on Gaspé… what’s the lasting memory now that you’ve seen the series?

Norm

I think, watching the series, it was the scenery which I had mentioned a couple times.  I was really surprised, I wasn’t expecting that at all and now looing back at it, it really brought back a lot of good memories about the road that we rode.  The road down into Matapedia  along the river, towards Baie des Challeurs and then when we cut across to Ste. Anne des Monts we had another river fun on that side and even on a very bad, cold, rainy day along the coast with the mountains on the right, just beautiful again.

Dave

Yeah, we had two beautiful sunny days and we had two nasty cold days  but it didn’t slow us down and in some ways, kind of looking back on the footage now it sort of added to the drama of the ride.  Those grey days were just a beautiful as the sunny days.  If you had to talk about ride number fifteen – Ultimate Ride number fifteen – have you given some thought as to where we should be going in a couple of months?

Norm

Yeah I think that… I thought about it a little bit last year, you know, all the places we’ve gone, as you said, fourteen years we’ve done a lot of… states and provinces and areas of different countries and it’d be kind of cool just to bring it back home to our back yard and one area of Ontario that we haven’t done, in the south side of Ontario, because we’ve done the loyalist trail, we’ve done Algonquin park, We haven’t done anything up around Tobermory or Manatoulin Island or up towards the Sioux and you know a lot of our customers come back and say that’s beautiful riding up there and I’m thinking that might the one for this year.

Dave

Sounds good to me.  If it’s anything like the last 14 I’m sure it will be a fun time so alright, let’s get the maps out and start planning a trip.

Norm

Perfect.

Dave

Sounds good, thanks again.

Norm

Thank-you.

Dave

That was a great one.