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我们从一开始便有了明确的分工。在安大略的高速路上都是由chris来开车，我负责察看旅游书籍，找出我想要去的地方（或者打盹）。在小道或者魁北克那就由我来开车，因为一则我不识地图，二则魁北克的路标都是法语，等我好不容易把路标和gps联系起来，我们早就开过了。

行车第一天由他开车，因为前一天养精蓄锐，我竟然没有睡着。无聊之及便玩起了相机。路边的景致随便绿色迎人，但是过了5分钟的千篇一律以后，便开始思量着找一些富有挑战性的活儿了！

在过了几个小城市以后，欣喜地发现每每在路过某个城市的时候，在高速的路边有城市的标牌。中大型的城市的做得花哨些，有的几千人的小城市的或者没有，或者就直接用了蓝色的高速的统一路标。我俩寻思着如果一路能够尽可能地收集满所有城市的标牌，还是挺有意思的。

不做不知道，刚开始的时候感觉这简直是一件mission impossible的任务。原因有三（haha， 做了几年咨询，也学会了麦肯希的无事不成三的归纳方法）：
１。行车速度太快。车子以１２０－１３０的速度在高速上飞的时候，聚焦是很难的。太远看不清，开近了准备要按快门的瞬间，往往只能照到４５度的角。
２。标牌出现的突然性。往往前不着村后不着店的地方来上一牌，让你防不胜防。
３。注意力分散。昨天就为了要拍一辆比我们的车子还要破的一辆老爷车（看见他们的概率还真不是太高！），差点错过了kingston.　所幸我在chris看到标牌狂哄的０。１秒内，没有吓得掉了相机，抬起镜头，眼明手快地完成了任务。

我的大作同志们在１３号的帖子里面应该已经看到了，昨天因为我们大多在魁北克的境内，所以都是由chris同学操刀的。效果真有惨不忍睹，大家就凑活吧！　

Here are towns on the way to 1000 islands

The Hershey factory at Smiths Falls was closed for Sunday, so nothing to see there...

Property taxes in Merrickville must be huge - there are so many signs announcing it plus Canada flags on the lamp posts. For all the signs announcing the ruins, we had a lot of trouble finding them.

We drove past Burritt's Rapids, where Lee's mother's family (who were Burritts) were the first Anglos to settle in the area. Unfortunately we could neither locate these Rapids nor Smiths' Falls.

It turns out it's not always easy to find a campground near the city...
We left Ottawa in the early evening to find a place to stay. The travel guide was close to useless, naming campgrounds and saying what highway they're on, but no street numbers and the GPS didn't recognize those campground names. So we drove along that highway for a short while, then saw a couple RVs coming from a different highway so Sue decided to take that one... A few minutes later we're asking for directions to the nearest campsite at a service station along the highway still in Gatineau, the girl working there looks at me as if I'm nutty and the guy points me towards a smaller town, Lorrain. Once there, I ask a local who was in his driveway near his pickup truck and boat, so he seemed like he might know.
Me: "Sais-tu ou est-ce que je pourrais trouver un camping public?"
Him: "A partir d'ici? C'est loin en tabarnak."
So I'm about to give up, then key in "camp" to business search on the GPS, and there's one 15 minutes away.
It's pretty bad, our site was about 5 meters from a country road, so we'd hear cars and motorcycles going past us every few minutes through the night... The website says it's good though. http://www.campingangegardien.com/
On the upside the sleeping pads fit perfectly in the tent, and we got dinner and breakfast at the IGA on the way over - cretons, melba toast, raspberries, and Lemon-flavored Molson Dry (halfway between smirnoff ice and mikes hard lemonade, no sign of beer).

Toronto
Pickering
Oshawa
Courtice
Bowmanville (Nuclear plant)
Newcastle
Newtonville
Port Hope
Cobourg

Bay of Quinte County
Colborne
Brighton / Campbellton

Quinte West

Prince Edward County
Trenton (military base)
Belleville


Shannonville
Desoronto
Napanee

Milhalen
Odessa
Kingston