Good morning! -This looks so good!
Good morning.
Bon appétit!
Merci!
It’s a wet day.
Marc thought he forgot his raincoat at first but he found it.
Thankfully.
Always bring your raincoat!
Whoa, there goes the cart.
Bye bye!
Oh no.
Why doesn’t she run after it, everyone says.
Because it’s funnier this way.
Yeah.
We have super great visibility on the road right now.
I thought I would just show you what it looks like.
Great day for sightseeing.
Good driving!
I’m trying not to crash.
A little tricky to see.
Yeah.
Keep those headlights on.
Welcome to Rimouski!
This is the St. Lawrence River behind me.
It was very, very foggy earlier today but it has now revealed itself.
We came to Rimouski for a bite of lunch and a cup of coffee.
We’ve been on the road pretty much all morning.
We started in Rivière-du-Loup this morning.
We drove through Trois Pistoles and we arrived here and we’re going to make our way south now
going to the kind of southern coast of the Gaspésie region.
So, luckily there’s not as much fog now
so we will actually be able to see a lot more of this beautiful area that we’re driving through.
So we’re about an hour from Rimouski.
We’ve been seeing all these beautiful churches that all have a very similar style around this region.
By the way, we are officially in the Gaspésie region now.
So we’ve crossed the border into the official Gaspésie.
And because these churches are everywhere, we thought let’s just pull off
and get some beautiful shots, especially drone shots.
So, Mister Marc is setting up the drone right now while I talk to you.
Yeah and I’ve discovered that the app has offloaded so…
Oh no!
Our wifi coverage is a little bit slow here but we’re going to get up and running here in a second.
So if we get the footage, we’ll cut to it now.
We’ll cut to it now!
We’re driving through the Matapédia Valley, which is part of the Gaspésie region
and this part of the Gaspésie is known for its heritage homes, churches,
so we've seen so many lovely churches, salmon rivers and lakes, and covered bridges.
So we have stopped in a town called Amqui.
Amqui is a Mi'kmaq word and in the Mi'kmaq language, it means ‘the place to have fun’.
And it’s known for covered bridges so we’re standing in front of one right now.
This is called the L’Anse-Saint-Jean and it was built in 1931.
It’s around 45 meters long and it spans the Matapédia River.
It’s single lane only so be careful when there’s traffic.
And it’s super calm around here.
The water is really still.
We saw someone fishing and it’s very tranquil.
I love a covered bridge.
A covered bridge is definitely something you would expect in a place to have fun.
Are you seeing this gal?
We just ordered poutine!
Yes, yes, yes!
But we have to share so we got a big one!
We couldn’t say no.
We passed this super cute sign called La Poutine du Bonheur and…
It’s exactly the kind of place I love to come across.
Not just for the poutine but it just looks so cute.
It looks so cute.
And the lady was so nice.
And the poutine looks even better.
Oui, oui!
She’s like what size do you want?
I just pointed at the big one.
Technically it’s the medium but you know.
It looks so good.
Oh, wow!
It’s a thing of beauty!
Thank you.
Thank you!
Bye!
Ermagerd!
Happy dance.
They put this sign here for me.
J’aime la poutine.
♪ Poutine ♪
♪ in the pool ♪
♪ Mais oui oui ♪
♪ J’aime la poutine ♪
♪ Dans la piscine ♪
I’m very excited right now.
♪ Poutine ♪
♪ in the mouth ♪
The best road trips have roadside stops like this, don’t you think?
Absolutely.
Definitely.
These are…these are the moments we will remember forever.
Yeah.
So yeah this is just the traditional…
Standard…
It was about what, ten dollars or so?
Yeah.
That…that looks pretty legit.
That’s legit.
Yeah.
It’s legit as it comes.
Oh yeah.
Oh my gosh!
Oh yeah.
Okay…
Look at those curds!
That’s a little bit big.
There’s no…there’s no gracious way to eat this, I’m so sorry.
Well, I think you just did a pretty gracious job there.
Which is impressive when your fries are slathered in gravy.
The curds are squeaking!
You won’t hear them!
Only I can hear them!
You’d have to get a really big closeup.
It’s exactly, exactly what I needed.
Welcome to Québec.
Bienvenue à poutine.
I love gravy, I love cheese, I love fries.
This is the perfect, perfect dish.
Perfect Gaspésie roadside stop.
A+
P+
If you’re going to have poutine,
first of all you should be in Québec really to have really good poutine.
And then you want as many kinds of poutine to choose from as possible.
So true.
Like all of this and all of this.
We got the traditional.
You know it’s a good place when…
Yeah.
We had to pull over again because we’re driving through some really gorgeous sections here now.
The hills/mountains are getting way bigger.
The trees are getting greener it feels like even.
And the clouds feel lower so there’s all this mist.
It feels really magical.
We’re in Routhierville right now and they also have a covered bridge.
It’s way longer as you can see behind me.
The water it spans is much wider
and it's this beautiful red colour and it just feels so calm.
Wow!
This is so long!
I think this is the longest covered bridge I’ve ever been on.
So we’ve been driving through the Matapédia Valley
and now we're in the actual town of Matapédia.
And there’s this really cool-looking lookout point that we want to see,
however, maybe you can’t tell, I don’t know, it’s getting quite dark
and we still have quite a bit of driving to do.
So we don’t have time to do the hike that’s a 360-metre-high trail
to get up to the top of this cliff where the lookout is located
so our time-saving plan is to send the drone up instead.
Because then we at least get to have a glimpse and you can too.
Because otherwise we just unfortunately don’t have time to get up there ourselves.
So let’s get a birds-eye view.
Yeah.
Send it up.
Success.
We did it.
Some amazing views up there.
Yeah!
I wish we had time, it looks awesome.
Next time.
Yeah.
Alright we’ve made it to Carleton-sur-mer,
which is on the southern coast of the Gaspésie region.
That is a tongue twister!
It’s the end of the day.
It’s been a long day.
We’re finally in our hotel room and we are going to hit the hay.
But I feel just so excited because I felt like when we were in Routhierville,
we really started to get into the mountainous region and it started to feel really different
and I think we’re kind of just entering what’s going to be a mindblowingly beautiful place to drive around.
Yes!
We already thought that and it just keeps getting better and better.
It does!
So I’m really excited for what comes next.
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