Maine

Moving Through Maine

April 29, 2013 sees the traveling Wraights heading north into Maine. We had a wonderful 5 days in Connecticut, but now it is time to make moves and get on with our travel plans. Monday morning saw us motoring through Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Today we put about 250 miles under our wheels, we stopped in South Portland, Maine. The day had been another beautiful drive; we rode a lot of Highway One, which gave us many picturesque views of the water. We camped at a quiet Elks Lodge for the night. A simple dinner and a glass of wine, we were ready for bed by 8:30pm.

Guinness and his Maine Lobster

April 30, 2013 – Tuesday morning saw us continuing our Maine maneuvers – our stop for the night was the coastal town of Rockland, only about 80 miles of travel today. More amazing Maine Coastal views, spectacular weather today, how lucky can we get? We got to camp and discovered that the Elks were hosting a community lunch - haddock chowder was the special for the day and it was amazing! We took a drive into the town of Rockland and wandered along the few blocks of shops. We are a bit early in the season; many of the stores were not open yet.  It was still fun to window shop and duck into a couple of the places for an up close browse.  We had an afternoon drink at the local pub and then enjoyed our Maine LOBSTER at the Rockland Café. Not fancy, but excellent seafood!

Rockland Cafe, a local favorite

May 1, 2013 – With more of Maine to see we headed back out on the road this morning, driving towards Bangor.  Another relatively short travel day, we enjoyed traveling through a few more small idyllic looking towns and on into Hermon, just outside of Bangor for our campground. We wanted to have facilities to dump and fill our tanks prior to heading into Canada. It was nice to take advantage of the Pumpkin Patch Campground; Mike washed and waxed the MoHo; I caught up on our paperwork (paying bills, writing in our journal, typing up the blog…), did several loads of laundry and spent some time knitting. The weather, once again, was just wonderful – we have been so lucky along most of our route.

Beautiful Bridge over the Penobscot River

May2, 2013 – we took another day to enjoy a last little bit of Maine. We went into Bangor enjoying a fantastic lobster roll and chowder lunch at the Sea Dog Brew Pub. We had eaten there a few years ago when we visited last time. Sitting on the back deck over the Penobscot River, sipping a very nice merlot wine and enjoying a wonderful bit of lobster – “just doesn’t get much better!” We ran a few errands seeing a bit more of the town as we went.

Corona's favorite pub!

We are excited to set out tomorrow – we will be heading up to Canada - to see new places and spaces.