January 1, 2011: New Year's Eve, we were with a few friends and someone asked 'Have you made reservations at Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca NY?' Well we hadn't, so after midnight, when we were home, Katy checked. "Closed for renovations until January 10th"! Looks like visiting the writers of Katy's second favourite cookbook (after J of C), will have to wait. So instead, we're at that most exotic of all locations: Bangor. TT January 2nd, 2011: The second day. Kept driving down the US New England coast and stopped in Freeport, Maine. Freeport is obviously a town based on shopping extravagance. After an hour at LLBean we left without buying anything. But I do highly recommend the coffee at LLBean. Then we walked around Freeport and I expect we are the only threesome (Katy, Nora, Tarjei)
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