Blogs from Maine, United States, North America - page 56

It's almost half way now and i really can't wait to just start travelling - while i've eventually grown to start liking the camp, I always long for those romantic walks along the wharf and the candle lit dinner beneath the stars and the................... sorry thats another fantasy........i always seem to long for the odd day that we actually get to leave camp and go travelling abit, let my hair down and experience another country and it's culture. The days that we have had out have been great and i always mark for the days when we get to do it again - but i guess for the next month and a half i'll just keep hacking it out! We had parents day just the other day, it's quite easy to tell where some of these ... read more

Odometer: 35146km In the morning I had to wait for the rain to stop and the streets to dry a bit before heading off, but I finally got underway by lunch time. I needed a little oil for the bike and ended up getting some help at Farris Power Sports on the outskirts of Augusta. It was one of those places run by seasoned motorcyclists. They were very good to me and hunted up some new oil dregs from several containers and charged me nothing. As I topped up the oil, another motorcyclists came over to talk. I met John, told him my name was also John, and we had a great chat. He was a carpenter, semi-retired, and rode one of the older Honda motorcycles that evolved into the touring Gold Wing of today. He ... read more

We left camp for a few days and actaully went and "camped". It was exactly how all of you picture an american camping in the woods with the usual fireside scary camp stories at night. On the second night, it was a perfectly cloudless night sky, stars were twinkling, infact it was a really good temperature for baking cookies (if you were baking cookies) and everyone was huddled around the camp fire - then Zhang blurted out in a funny chinese/tongan accent "SCARELY STORLY" - i'll translate that for you "scary story". All these scary stories then filled my head - there was the one about the family getting stuck in the middle of the desert and mutants coming and eating them, and there was the one when the backpackers becoming involved with the sick and ... read more

LOCATION: Acadia to Lubec, ME Acadia NP. Again we thought we would do some hiking but it was a downpour all day. So we drove into Bar Harbor and did the tourist thing for a while. We visited the Abbee Museum, a Native American Museum of the area , quite interesting. We continued our drive to the Eastermost town in the US---Lubec, ME. We drove out to view the West Quoddy Lighthouse, the easternmost point of land in the USA. The winds had to be 50 mph plus, and the rain was steady, we tried to get some photos. Then on we forged to a campground for the evening. The wind is incredible as we are perched above the sea, watching a crazy man dig for clams in the wind and rain. Good-night. ... read more

Last Day in MA and Traveling North June 4, 2006, Sunday. We met with our kids and grandkids to tour Boston. We got the trolley into town and visited the aquarium. Our lunch stop was at Fanieul Hall, we all enjoyed a different ethnic specialty, before we started out on a trolley tour of Boston. We returned to the Cape via the bus. Monday, June 5. We are on our way to Maine. We packed up and left the Cape driving to Maine. Our first stop was Freeport. We walked around the town and visited the outdoor shops. Bob found some bargains. We stayed in Brunswick at a private campground. Tuesday, June 6, 2006. We spent most of the day in Brunswick ME. A lovely town that is the home of Bowdoin College. We started ... read more