Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

{Spring Break} The Maine Event

So, the "snow event" was basically just a dusting (Vermont-style), but I cut a few things out of our planned stops in Maine and took it easy this morning...

Our car still looked like this when we hit the road mid-morning...


and my South Carolinian children still looked like this...


 but don't worry, we DO have appropriate clothing and shoes...

So, rather than taking the northeastern state routes through the mountains, we kept to the interstates and headed south down to Manchester, NH...


and then, north up to Maine, our final destination for this trip...


From the welcome center, we pretty much booked it straight to Bangor, ME and visited the grave of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin...


Hannibal Hamlin served as the 15th Vice President of the United States during President Abraham Lincoln's first term. He was succeeded by Andrew Johnson, who went on to become president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination...

From Bangor, we turned around and headed back south, and it felt good to be starting the slow trek home!

Our next stop was in Augusta, ME to run up the state capitol building steps...


We grabbed dinner at local dive, Whipper's Pizza...


before continuing on to our hotel, just making one quick pit stop at the flagship L.L. Bean store and the BIG boot (like last time)!


Making our way into Boston, MA tomorrow!

Saturday, July 20, 2013

{Road Trip} Day Ten - More Parks ~ State, National & International...

...in both MAINE and NEW BRUNSWICK!

We began our day with a visit to Acadia National Park...




What a beautiful place!

We drove to the top of Cadillac Mountain to admire the view...




and spent some time playing in the frigid, and fiesty, surf on Sand Beach...




before heading east to West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, the easternmost point in the continental United States!


 


B now has a couple of "extreme points" under his belt!




From Lubec, we took the bridge over to Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada...


{in New Brunswick ~ the bridge is in the background}



to visit Roosevelt's (Summer) Cottage ~ probably my favorite Presidential stop on this trip...



We just had to take a peek at East Quoddy Head Lighthouse before leaving the island...


 


and crossing back over the border to Maine.

More {Road Trip} 2013 Fun

Friday, July 19, 2013

{Road Trip} Day Nine - Beaches, Shops & Lobsters!

First on the list this morning was a trip to Mother's Beach in Kennebunkport...




There was a fabulous playground right on the beach...




and the little ones loved every single bit of that!




as well as playing on the rocky shore...




and in the cool ocean...




We left the beach, washed up and headed to Yarmouth...


Thanks to fellow bloggers, Amanda and Ron, I have developed a real love of Alison Evans Ceramics and decided that since I was up this way, I just had to visit the shop! 




Let me just say that it did not disappoint...




I got to meet the artist herself and have to say that she was just delightful, even helping to carry our boxed up purchases out to the car for us!




If you are a fan and ever find yourself up that way, you have to stop by.  You won't be sorry!

From Yarmouth, we headed to Portland to try our hands at lobstering!


  

We grabbed a quick lunch on the dock...




before catching our lobster boat!




What a fun experience!  The little ones absolutely LOVED it.  They helped pull in traps, bait them and push them back out... 




and even got to help put the bands on the claws.  The captain really did a great job of explaining everything along the way and allowing everyone to help out and learn about lobstering hands-on.

We caught a lobster with one claw, called a cull, that was just beginning to regenerate its other claw.  B was so intrigued with this lobster from the very beginning that he decided he wanted to buy that very lobster to eat (a service that they offer)...

You can't get much fresher than that.

From boat...




to dock...



to plate!




Wow!

From Portland, we made a stop in Freeport to visit the flagship L.L. Bean store, and more importantly, the BIG boot!

  


The adventures continue tomorrow...

More {Road Trip} 2013 Fun