Canada Trip Report (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Portland ME) 2023
In the weeks before this trip for the annual King Family reunion, there were news reports of the big fires in Canada, and we were hopeful that the smoke effects would not be too bad. This would be a first -- travelling to be in smoke, not the expected scenario of trying to escape California wildfire smoke. Anyway, we flew on a Thursday late afternoon to get to Toronto. The plane was slightly delayed and we arrived in Toronto early on Friday, and weren't settled in bed at the airport hotel until 3am local time (but not too late for our California time bodies, i.e. midnight). We slept somewhat late the next morning, and caught a hotel shuttle back to the airport to pick up the rental car. Here, we got upgraded to an Audi Q5 and as it turns out, there are a lot of Q5's in the Toronto area. We first drove to eat lunch. P had booked our first meal at a French bistro called Le Select, in downtown Toronto. We were lucky to get a close parking spot on the street, and the restaurant ...