Monthly Archives: September 2018
Quebec Encore . . .
Since nothing much interesting happened today, and I had some business stuff going on tonight, I thought I’d repost our visit to Quebec in September 2009.
Today was our day to see the city of Quebec.
We started out with breakfast at our new favorite breakfast/lunch place, Cora. Hopefully these will show up in the US soon.
We drove around Quebec, finally ending up in Vieux Quebec, or Old Quebec where we found a Tourist Information Center.
We found that there was going to be a 2 hour bus tour at 2:30 pm and signed up for it. Luckily for us, today was the last day for this tour, and, even luckier, it was all in English.
We’ve noticed a lot of touristy things are starting to shut down, or reduce their hours, due to winter coming on, and the tourist trade is dropping off.
We had some time to kill before the tour started so we drove to a Glass Shop on St. Jean street that Jan wanted to visit.
Finally we headed back to rendezvous with our tour bus. Our driver, a Quebec City native named Francois, spoke very good English, luckily for us. But Jan said he sounded like Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame.
Our tour gave us a look at the major sites in Quebec, in both the old and new sections.
Here is the Simons fountain in front of the Provincial Capitol of Quebec.
Here is the view from the Plains of Abraham battlefield site overlooking the St. Lawrence river.
The battle of Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, took place during the French and Indian War in September 1759, and the British victory over the French led to France relinquishing all claims to Canada.
Here’s Jan with another view from the battlefield.
And here is the Chateau Frontenac Hotel, one of the most magnificent sites in Quebec. Built in 1893, the Frontenac is one of the premiere hotels in North America.
Here’s one of the many pedestrian-only streets in Vieux (Old) Quebec.
This church, the L Eglise Notre Dame Des Victoires (The Church of Our Lady of Victories) , is the oldest stone church in North America.
Another view.
And this building, built in 1675, is the oldest one in Quebec City.
After our tour was over, we drove over to Tomas Tam’s, a Chinese buffet restaurant we’d seen advertised. And it was very good.
On our way back to the rig, we drove pass everyone’s favorite chicken place, PFK.
PFK???
Leave it to Quebec to put their own stamp on things.
PFK in French stands for ‘Poulet Frit Kentucky’, or Kentucky Fried Chicken to us.
Getting back to the rig, we got ready to head out early tomorrow on a long travel day.
Thought for the Day:
You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.
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Got’er Done . . .
The weather decided to cooperate this afternoon, so about 1pm I went outside to finish up my battery install.
Since I would be shutting off all the12v power to the coach, I wanted to have everything prepped for the change-out as quickly as possible. This is because the 12v not only runs the lights, etc., but it also powers the AC thermostats. So shutting off the 12v shuts off the AC’s too.
Luckily it wasn’t really hot this afternoon, so after shutting off the house battery disconnect right by the door,
I disconnected the battery cables and pulled the old batteries out. Which turned off to be easier said than done. These 6v batteries weigh almost 70# each and it was hard to get them dragged sideways so I could then lift them out. And then I did it again for the second one.
So now I was ready to install the new ones, right? Nope.
These new batteries are wider than the old ones, and so the spacers molded into the plastic tray bottom to hold them secure were in the wrong place and needed to be removed.
So using my Multipurpose Oscillating Tool, I sliced off both spacers off flush with the bottom of the tray and I was good to go.
So now I had to brute-force the first new one into place, a little easier at about 56#. Once in place I hooked up the cables, including the ones to add the second battery, and turned the rig 12v back on and got the AC’s running again, much to Jan’s appreciation, even though it was only about 15 minutes.
Now all I had to do was struggle the last battery into place and hook up the cables paralleling it with the first one.
And after tightening down all the connections and spraying everything with Strike-Hold, I was finally done.
Since the original hold-down frame for the old batteries no longer fits, I’ll have to come up with something else to lock them down.
So one chore checked off the list, and a whole bunch still to go.
Thought for the Day:
There’s a reason the rearview mirror is so small and the windshield is so big.
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