Shawinigan
The plan: Montreal to Shawinigan = 1:44 = 92 miles
     Warm and Humid, occaisonal PM Rain
07:00 Breakfast: 7up, crepes (my first ever, I think), sausage, home fries.  Excelent.
Decide to drive through Mont Tremblant Parc



Chutes Croches

Chutes du Diable

Painted Trillium
12:00 Drive out of Parc to Mont Tremblant ski area 80º.

Ride Free Gondola

To Expensive Gondola
13:00 Lunch at Summit - 2 Hotdogs, fries, Sprite

View from Mont Tremblant Summit

View of Mont Tremblant summit
14:30 Drive to another Parc entrance

Drive through Macaza covered bridge
15:10 Enter Parc on dirt road.
15:20 Rain starts
16:10 Exit Parc and dirt road.
16:30 Rain stops
19:11 McDonalds!

20:00 arrive at Comfort Inn & Suites
      500 Boulevard du Capitaine Jos Veilleux , Shawinigan, QC, CA, G9P 5J6 Phone: (819) 536-2000
21:00 try Internet connection in room - no Cat5 cable
21:05 Ask at front desk for cable.
21:06 Clerk: "Yes but I need a D...., what is the word?"
      Me: "Deposit?"
      Clerk: "Yes, My english is not so good."
      Me: "It is better than my French.  Here's $20"
21:10 back in room, connection is balky.  Receives about 20 packets and quits.
21:15: Clerk: "It should just work"
21:20 Still not working, I'll try in morning

Day 3, a Monday if I recall correctly