The drive to Moncton (without seeing the axe) and dinner and pie at Hynes Restaurant

The drive from Quebec City, Quebec, to Moncton, New Brunswick, is about 500 miles. The drive was made much easier with four drivers, a vast improvement from August 2013 when I was the sole driver for most of the 6,000+ road trip to the Grand Canyon. On the drive to Moncton, Clare, Conor, and Suzanne all spied a moose (somehow I was not paying attention, once again!). Despite my strong wishes to a make a detour, Clare kept to the straight and narrow toward Moncton, skipping a quintessential road trip stop at the largest axe roadside tourist attraction. We did stop at the Kings Landing Historical Settlement (which I visited with my family in 1973), but it was closed and all we got was a photo of me pointing to the entrance sign.

We lost an hour due to the time zone change (New Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia are all on the Atlantic time zone), and arrived in Moncton about 8:00 PM, ready for dinner and some pie. We were not to be disappointed. Dinner at Hynes Restaurant (established in 1939 and now run by the third generation of the Hynes family) was standard road food fare (hot turkey sandwiches with mashed potatoes for Clare and me, and cheeseburgers for Conor and Suzanne), topped off by a piece of warm, homemade blueberry pie à la mode.

We did not stop to see this attraction. Instead we kept on driving right past it.

I visited here in 1973