We're due to leave Montreal today so it was our last day in the hotel that doesn't let us use the front door. We had breakfast in our room again, and when the guy arrived with our food Mark opened the door to take it off him and the guy just burst out laughing and walked off. How rude!
We hit the road and to spite the hoteliers we burst out of the front door, we'll show them. On the road it was boring roads while we fought our way out of Montreal but soon opened up into vast countryside.
The scenery is amazing here with trees showing off a plethora of colours and hills breaching the cloud layer. We ate up the miles over a couple of hours until we approached the US border.
We were intending to cross the border this time so we had our passports ready. They gave us a bit of a grilling asking many questions, so we're pretty sure they have enough info to access our online banking now, but they let us back in so that's ok.
We had a healthy lunch comprising of crisps and sweets which kept us going until we hit the White Mountain National Forest, our destination for the day. The satnav had a spaz attack so we had to find the address manually which was surprisingly easy.
We're stopping at a cottage in the woods which sounds more remote than it is. There are about a dozen cottages in the resort but we've yet to see anyone else so they're either waiting to murder us or they've been eaten by bears.
We thought we'd get a quick activity in before dinner so drove to the 1100 meter zip line that lets you get up to speeds of 65mph. Unfortunately this place was closed which was mildly annoying, so we went back to the cabin.
We opted for a BBQ tonight so went to the store and stocked up on stuff to mafke a fire and some noms to eat. It was only when we got back to the cottage that we found we didn't actually have a BBQ so we stole one from our neighbours.
Martin hasn't lit a BBQ for about 15 years so it was up to Mark to get the thing going. Now normally when Mark has a BBQ either Tim or Spenno are around so it involves petrol and fuses and stuff. This time however we had briquettes and fire lighters designed for wood, so not ideal. Eventually we got it going though and smoked out the other cabins.
While we were waiting for the flames to die down we made use of our neighbours ping pong table to host the first international world ping table pong tennis tournament of the globe. Martin won both finals, Mark suspected him if cheating as he had thus ability to be able to hit the ball and it could land on the table.
Once the fire died down we put the food on and it promptly nuked it impressively well. The burgers were cooked to perfection, the chicken a little burned but good, and the bacon cooked in seconds.
We followed up the main course by cooking some popcorn which had the strict instructions of "do not cook over a BBQ". Of course we ignored this and did it any way and it all turned out ok, no children were harmed or anything.
We then sat on the porch like a pair of hillbillies listening out for the sound of duelling banjos.
The strange thing is that we have free wifi in the cabin and it's the fastest we've experienced so far despite being in the middle of a forest about 2 hours from a major city.
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