A taste of the Route Verte

The day started very nicely by sleeping in until 6:45 AM. After about 10 hours in the saddle the day before it was great. We were the only ones in the B&B so the owners made breakfast just for us. There was another guest, but he was a bit of a complainer so the owners made him a reservation at a motel and sent him away :-) The breakfast matched the gourmet dinner from the night before. We were checking out some places to stay in the Quebec City area and the owner helped pick out a nice B&B for two nights and made the reservation for us. He brought the bikes around and brought out his box of bike stuff - part of being a bike friendly B&B. I needed some WD-40 as we had a number of rusty spots after the rain, mud, and subsequent cleaning - and he had a can in his box of stuff. I'm guessing there was some residual salt on the roads.
It was off to find our first real parts of the Route Verte (Green Route) which is a very nice bike path/route network in Canada. This stretch from the USA to Quebec City has a number of unfinished parts and most of it is just riding the shoulder on the highway, but in today's stretch there were a number of separated paths that were great. Nice pavement, and some were far from the highway through fields and by the river. We stopped at an outdoor cafe by the river for some pizza and salad. Patricia wanted her water bottle refilled so I asked the waitress for some 'cold water'. Seemed fine until about a mile down the road Patricia discovered her bottle was filled with 'cold pepsi' :-)
Most of the day was on the highway, shoulders varied from nothing to perfect. Traffic wasn't too bad until we got to the edge of Quebec City. We've been using my Garmin 705 GPS a lot on this trip for directions and route finding and it's been great. Today we plugged in the address of the new B&B and when we were about 10 miles away let it take over. Turn by turn directions right to the front door, and if the street signs are missing or wrong it doesn't matter. Very nice to have with us.
The new B&B is very nice as well. Just had a hot shower and it's off to do laundry and grab dinner in a bit. Tomorrow it's sleep in late and explore historic Quebec City as we take a day off before heading to Montreal.