people from long ago still text me asking for travel recommendations for their spontaneous trips with their b/friends.

When you are in Eastern Townships, stay at Orford Music school which has an inexpensive midcentury-modern hébergement that turns into a guesthouse on summers, Orford provincal park is nice to hike around in, Asbestos has a crazy giant mine that swallowed up the town that’s worth seeing, Memphremagog is touristique but has a pretty lake (that supposedly has a monster living in it), Sherbrooke is a cool and pretty/gritty university town worth checking out, in Montreal rent a bike and go down Lacine canal, there always are festivals on summer there’s bound to be something cool, Plateau and Mile End are nice to stay in and wonder around, also bike across the water to see Habitat’67 and the singular standing wave on the river where all locals surfers go to ride, definitely see what’s at CCA, oh, yes, and Italian Market – you know what they say, you haven’t been to the city if you haven’t visited its bazaar, check out Atlas Obscura for more cool/crazy things around there, I can’t remember anymore – Quebec City is crazy touristique but still really pretty – and if you have the time – not really a quick spontaneous trip, keep going along the river to Le Bic national park, and especially the gardens in Métis where all these landscape architects from all over Americas have competitions every 2 years – they are amazing. I envy you.