Day One and Day Two (August 6, 7)

Day One, Sunday August 6.

This day was spent on the road driving to Montreal. I picked up my travelling companion, Mark, who is joining me on this trip. Mark is an "electronics junky" who owns a Nokia cell phone with WiFi, Internet, video and music capabilities. This means that we are on-line to the Web wherever there is cell phone reception and can upload using our notebooks.

On our way to Montreal, we stopped off in Prescott, Ontario, to fill up with gas before entering Quebec, and to make a visit to my mother's childhood home, Chestnut Hall, which is the namesake of my music production company. Click on Chestnut Hall to see a short video of this visit. (Music is from Kevin Ramessar's newest CD Sojourn. Goto www.kevinramessar.com for more info.)

We arrived in Montreal to stay at a friend's place, who kindly left us a key to get in, as he was out of town. Thank you, Helmut!!!

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Day Two, Monday, August 7.

Before leaving Montreal, we stocked up on food at the Atwater Market and then took the Transcanada straight through to Moncton, arriving there at 10:00 pm.

We are staying with friends of mine who I knew 25 years ago in university, the Steepers. It has been a real pleasure to start to reaquaint, and to get to know the family that has since developed. Jonathan and Trish spent 10 years in Albania running a missionary organization there, and have now settled in Moncton with a church here. The church has a strong Acadian membership, and through some contacts there I am finding out about informal gatherings of musicians in the Moncton area.


Tuesday, I will begin to follow up on these leads.