Gee That’s Bettah (with apologies to Allan Sherman and songwriter Louis Busch)

Yesterday we arrived at Quebec’s Mont Tremblant National Park and it felt a bit like Camp Granada. It was cold and damp, if no longer raining. Our site had some open areas so we should have had TV, but there was no phone service so no internet to check the satellite positions. Bud couldn’t get the antenna to pick up any satellites. Oh, and a bolt had sheared on our hitch and the bathroom faucet wouldn’t run more than a trickle and a pin had fallen out of our bathroom cabinet closer and even though I took apart and checked the sink trap we couldn’t find it.

I drove a couple of miles to the Discovery Center where there was supposed to be wifi. I got service on my phone so I could call my mom, but no internet. I had intended to use the internet to bring up the satellite finder and write down the direction and height angles of the satellites so we could use our compass to reposition the antenna. No go, and Bud couldn’t seem to get any lined up. So no TV, no internet and the radio station he found was in French (of course).

This morning we decided to come back to the Discovery Center to try again for internet and take a hike. We did the hike first. It was one of only three in the area that allowed dogs. Called Le Roche it was supposed to go up to an overlook.

It was a very pretty trail.

It was wide, well made and had benches periodically.

After a long uphill we came to a sign that indicated the dog friendly trail went to the right. So we went that way. It was pretty…

but this was as close as we came to an overlook, you can almost see out through the trees. And we were well past the distance we expected and didn’t want to walk any further. When we got back to the intersection another group was checking directions. There’s no overlook that way we told them. He had an app he let me see (it looked like All Trails). I could tell we were supposed to go straight. These were French speakers, but we all understood each other enough to set out on the wider trail.

In short order we found this. Oh yes, there was an overlook!

The views were spectacular, and it was sunny!

I found the Discovery Center.

I think that is Lac Chat and our campground is just beyond that beach.

And besides the beautiful views we had phone service up there! It was good enough to use our satellite locator app, so I took a screen shot of the positions.

We walked back down to the Discovery Center. Of course I looked for the overlook, and I found it.

It’s right there. And I found the wifi. We went back to the trailer. I had found a bit of glop in the aerator for the bathroom faucet and fixed that. Bud found the pin for the roller on our cabinet closer so I fixed that. He had a bolt for the hitch so he fixed that, and we used the information I had saved to reposition our antenna and we now have TV. And I am back at the Discovery Center to write and post this blog.

So I guess this is more like Camp Granada when the rain stopped. “Gee that’s bettah.”