[torradan]

Got a job a couple weeks back, and well, now I'm travelling around New Brunswick and heading to PEI in about 3 weeks. Drove out here on Monday in a POS Dodge Caliber that rides like a tank. I hate it a lot. 17 hours straight and I think all of my internal organs have been re-arranged.

Currently stuck just north of a place called Tracadie, NB. Company hooked us up with a nice cottage for the next 10 days between two sites we have to work on.. Horray for a kitchen, and pocketing my per diem most of the time. Right on the Pokemouche (Pokemon?) River.

Totally beautiful over this way. Ended up having to drive to Bathurst today to get plates for the company car (long story) and stopped along the water quite a few times. Sad I didn't get the Nova Scotia or Newfoundland gig, but definately scored better than the poor bastards who are stuck on the western part of the province in the moose filled mountains.

The GPS is very very touch and go here, and some truck driver from Toronto was asking us for directions as his GPS was acting wonky as well. We ended up off roading and almost getting stuck when it sent us down an unpaved road which then turned into a single lane road loaded with deep puddles. Some of the other guys are also having the same problems.

Very French in this area, and thankfully we found some kind soul who knew enough English to point us to the liquor store.

Anthony, is your family/relatives/ancestors from out this way? I've seen a few Acadian flags flying here with your last name plastered on them.