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Published: September 29th 2008
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We got up, to sunshine blue skies. We heard on the news that Hannah caused a lot of flooding further north from us and it seems she just skirted the Brunswick area because we got rain last night but nothing substantial. Loaded the car and headed to our yummy continental breakfast. Very typical carb weighted food but they did have coffee.
We decided to find the nearest Wally-world. There we purchased a small styrofoam cooler and some grapes, apples, juice and snacky stuff. Walmart was interesting...not the typical ugly building but one that more or less lent itself to the architecture of the area with gables and a tudor looking exterior. Inside it was the same but it was rather nice outside.
OK, so I'm an idiot. I took about 20 pictures before I realized that somehow the camera had been set on black and white so the first bunch of pictures are not in color. I had some nice shots of Freeport and Brunswick that are absolutely uninteresting in b&w.
We also made an attempt to get the GPS working on the laptop and finally got it working. Well, Cal got it working by just turning it
Lobster
They seem to really like lobsters here on. That is so infuriating! This happens all the time. We call it "laying on of hands". I did all the same things yesterday and
nada. We decided to follow the coast road rather than take the freeway. Our ultimate destination is Lubec but we did have all day to see some of northern coastal Maine.
We stopped in a little coastal town called Rockland and happened upon a lighthouse museum
http://www.mainelighthousemuseum.com/ so we went in and checked it out. It was really interesting. They had a relief map of the Maine coast with a small blue light for each place where there was a light house. Many of the 60 lighthouses in Maine are still active. There are 5500 miles of coastline in Maine, which if stretched out would go past Florida, so it would take days to follow the coast completely but we did the best we could.
Most things in these small towns don’t appear to have changed for generations, but then I would assume that these people like their ancestors have something to do with fishing or lobstering or manufacturing. It was a little like going back in time.
As we were approaching
The Lighthouses of Maine
It's hard to see but there are little blue lights symbolizing all the lighthouses on the coast. Prospect we noticed a really beautiful bridge called Penobscot Narrows Bridge. We decided to stop since we noticed that it appeared to have an observation tower on one of the supports. The bridge was opened in 2007 so it is very new. Beside it was the old bridge which I assume some day will be demolished. The bridge has a 420-foot observatory with a 100-mile view on a clear day. It’s not the tallest bridge observatory in the world, just the tallest publicly accessible bridge observatory. My favorite fact about the bridge is that the total bridge weight is about 10,500 African elephants (roughly 126 million pounds). We also noticed that one of the "mountains" in the area was 900 feet above sea level. WOW!
The little town of Bucksport caught my attention as I was looking around from the bridge. It struck me as being the quintessential New England town. I swear I heard the theme from
Peyton Place. One disappointment is very few of the leaves are turning and yet this is a good thing too because we are not bombarded with tour buses full of leafpeepers looking for fall foliage. I've been told that at peak
times there are traffic jams on some of the country roads.
I wanted to visit Fort Knox while we were there but we hadn't had lunch yet and we still wanted to go to Bar Harbor before we got to Lubec which is where our B & B is. Hopefully we'll be able to visit on our way back to Boston.
Baaaaa Haaaaaabor. I can't tell you why exactly I wanted to go there except that I've heard the name, it was on the way to where we were going and it sounded neat. And it was. I can't imagine what it must be like in the summer. Wall-to-wall traffic I would guess. I really had hoped that we would be able to tour Acadia National Park which is also on the island but we do need to be in Lubec to check into our B & B. I am hoping that we might have a chance on our way back to Boston but it is up in the air right now. We found a restaurant on the wharf in downtown Bar Harbor. We ate outside. I ordered lobster bisque and a lobster salad (I can already see
I'll need a 12 step program free me from my impending seafood addiction). I expected more but both were just so-so. We shared our lunch with a very persistent pigeon. Up close that bird had the beadiest mean red eyes I've ever seen.
On to Lubec
https://www.visitlubecmaine.com/, the easternmost town in the U.S. so the sunrise is viewed here before anyplace else. We needed to be checked in to our B & B by 7:00 so we needed to get moving. We arrived at Peacock House B & B
https://www.peacockhouse.com/ right at 7:00 and were greeted by Sue Baker. The house is beautiful. It overlooks the Bay of Fundy and we could see the bay from our room. It was built in 1860 by a sea captain and was renovated several times. Sue and Dennis were originally from Pennsylvania and spent vacations in Maine. They eventually decided to buy the house and open a B & B. There are seven rooms. Ours was the Summer Room which included an ensuite bathroom, very nice traditional decor and a fabulous breakfast that included muffins with Maine blueberries. It cost us a whopping $90.00 including breakfast.
We got our luggage into
the room and decided to explore the town of Lubec and find something light to eat. The town is the easternmost town in the U.S. Within spitting distance is the Island of Campobello which if you are a history buff at all know was one of the summer homes of Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt. One of the things that brought us to Lubec was visiting Campobello. Anyway, we set off to explore Lubec a little bit and ended up at Cohill's Irish Pub and Inn.
http://www.cohillsinn.com/ This was one of the places I considered staying at but Peacock won out. The pub was quiet. It is a Sunday night after all. We sat at the bar and ordered a drink and some food. I had a cup of the best lobster bisque I've ever tasted! The bartender mentioned that he was trying out a new beer...blueberry beer and wanted to know if we wanted to taste it. So we did. Not being a lover of beer I couldn't imagine something that tasted like the combination of a blueberry muffin and beer. The smell was very strong of blueberry but it tasted like plain ole beer to me.
We got
back to the B & B and met some of our fellow travelers. Two couples from California and two couples from D.C. There is also a Dutch couple and another couple staying but we haven't met them. I think they have pretty much a full house. We asked about extending our stay another day but they are full tomorrow night so that's that.
Had a nice and interesting conversation with the two sets of couples in the little sitting area. Turns out all of them are for Obama. Don't exactly know how the conversation came up. You always have to be careful about that kind of thing but once our preferences were all revealed the conversation was quite lively if everybody agreeing with everybody can be considered lively.
It had been a long day so we went up to our room and to sleep at about 10:00.
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