September 30, 2005
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(Eating Our Way Across New England)
Today we left Lowell, Mass., connected with I95 again and headed north. Of course, we didn't do that before we had a chance to have breakfast (complete with a cup of coffee). The weather was again better than ever. We had some initial traffic leaving Mass. (construction work on a bridge) but after that it was pretty smooth sailing. We swapped seats once we got to Maine and I took a stint at the wheel.
Maine is beautiful. Lots of water and trees. A few of the trees are turning, but most of them are still wearing summer greens. Now, on to the important information...
We stopped for a late lunch. In fact, we had one false start. We walked into a little cafe in a quaint Maine town, moved over to a table to sit down and just as we moved into position, one of the waitresses came over to point out that it was after 2pm and they weren't serving lunch any more.
A few miles down the road we found the sandwich shop in the next picture. The food was good and we enjoyed a peaceful, mid afternoon (3pm) lunch. It seems like we have some kind of deficit. The acronym by which today's lunch place wants to be known is obvious from it's name: Market on Main's sandwiches. After lunch we crossed the street to a toy shop and then next to the toy shop for a used book and coffee shop. (What lunch is complete without a cup of coffee?)
What kind of vehicle are we cruising the coast in? Here's a photo of the Chevy HHR we're in:
Of course, the pairing my new 175W power inverter with Joel's laptop and an FM wireless transmitter to the car's radio provides access to Joel's entire (and legal) music collection. I took a picture of the laptop, but it's not really newsworthy.
Around 6pm we got into Bar Harbor and our motel. As you can tell, we've got wireless internet in the room. Joel's tapping away on his keyboard as I do the same on mine (with SciFi running in the background). After checking in and getting our stuff into our room we headed for town. After walking around and stretching our legs a little, we headed to the outskirts of town and Jack Russell's Steak House and Brewery. The beer was good and so were the steaks.
Tomorrow we're going to hike to our heart's content and our legs sorrow. Can't wait to see Acadia National Park.
Comments (1)
Vacation must be doing you good - you are looking younger in your photos! =)
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