Blogs from Portland, Maine, United States, North America - page 4

So the morning started with an early morning (by Sherry standards) start. Mary, Aunt Sue and I headed off to BWI to catch a 9:20 flight to Manchester, NH. I ran about 5 minutes behind and we needed to make a pit-stop at my Aunt's house, so that meant that Betsy had about 30 minutes of Betsy time before we all met up. It was about an hour flight from BWI to Manchester. So we got to Manchester about 10:30ish. We got our rental car and we were off. We decided to take the more scenic more coastal road to Portland. So Mary took us along Route 1, but before we made it to Route 1, we saw Kittery Outlets and we had to stop. Who could refuse??? Kittery was in the town of York and ... read more

We walked over the very short bridge, set our phones back an hour and walked into the customs building next to the road on the other side with much apprehension. Thankfully we were greeted with "Hi!" "Hello!" "Come on in!" by the 3 US border security guards inside. Their first question was "Where are you going?" To which I answered "......America...?" much to their amusement. Not really sure what they wanted us to say! After a few quick questions about where we were from, the explanation of our route and paying of the $6 visa waiver fee, we were in after an unexpected quick and painless border cross. We headed to a diner just across the border to have some lunch after spending most of the morning eating nothing due to pre-border nerves! As we had ... read more

Snow in Maine delayed our trip to Israel. Our flights were canceled on Tuesday and Wednesday and then Dad could not get us on another flight until today. (But another storm was on the way!) Our friend Susan Poulin drove us to the Portland Jetport. We flew to Newark NJ. We had to go through special security in the waiting area to get on the plane to Tel Aviv, where the airport is in Israel. The flight was very long... over 10 hours! We arrived the next day at 9:30am. We rented a car and drove to Be'er Sheva, which is at the top of the Negev Desert. It is very different. I have hardly had any sleep since we left. Our apartment (they call them "flats") is really nice. We have a balcony that looks ... read more

:) WEEK 1 BLOG WRITTEN UNDER ARRIVAL......... ARRIVAL And so after a 7 1/2 hr, quite pleasant flight filled with so so many films, TV shows and games we arrived in Newark Airport, just outside New York. Like any other airport its big and expensive, we walked around for a wee while getting our bearing and trying to find a place to eat that would work with my Dairy Intolorence, most of the places are big fast food, greasy eateries, the people serving in them are quite large people which for me makes it quite funny, its almost an advertisement 'eat here if you want to end up Huge like me', so if you watching your waistband this certainly acts as a great deterrent. We found a place called 'Greenleaf's Grill' at the food court,... wow, ... read more

OK, I'm not in Portland. That is a lie. My other entries are listed as from Bethel, ME. Again, it's a lie. I'm not quite sure how to make new location.... North America United States Maine Bridgton There is no E in Bridgton. Weird. That's the reason I uploaded the picture of Bridgton village. Just so you know, reader. The most famous thing about Bridgton is Stephen King. He doesn't live here though. He lives in Lovell ME. But there is nothing in Lovell. So you may see him around town at the bookstore or Food City, that's the local semi-supermarket. My Uncle Sam was stolen off of my mailbox! Can you believe it? Bridgton, ME I also have to fix my picture...it's sideways... Thanks for reading me.... read more