Road trip to Maine

We took a trip to Wells, Maine and didn't realise it was in a line of three very tourist "towns" which now makes sense being only 1.5 hours north of Boston. And thought setting off on the trip on the Labour day long weekend here in Canada was good to give us the Monday off, not realising we were driving into the Labour day weekend in the US too. OK, everyone else in North America knew it except for us....especially the 52 million people who were there from Boston.

13 hours into the road trip and thrilled to take another 30 mins for the last 3 miles!

Was a good drive overall though, through four different states and some fantastic countryside and we took the scenic route on the way, hoping we might see some of the "New England in the fall colour". But were a few weeks early to see the real colour changes in the leaves, so not quite leaf peepers yet!

As you can imagine I was loving being somewhere with hoards of other people..... but can't blame everyone for being there as it is a lovely spot with nice white sandy beaches and countryside.

And speaking of beaches I also had to chuckle as we went to one beach on the Sunday and I thought I was in a bad movie, where you could just about see the sand in-between the people.

Are you kidding me?!?

But then we found some other beaches were we could enjoy some more peace and quiet and get the kayak in the water.

Ah, much better

Then thankfully everything got much quieter from the Tuesday but still not thrilled to be charged US$20-25 to park by a beach!! So we found some ways around it (like "locals" beach above) and managed to enjoy a few hours here and there as we are never very good at staying in one place for a whole day!

Being in that part of the world it was a requirement to eat lobster so I reluctantly took on this challenge and advantage of some of the many take-away (lobster rolls) and eat-in joints (lobster and seafood pie).

We had some fun in the first few days and Logan was a bit manic which was out of character for him. But then after talking to him we figured out he was thinking we had moved house (again) as he hadn't quite got the "holiday/vacation" idea! Poor confused thing. So after we convinced him this was just the "holiday home" things went more smoothly.

We took a trip midweek to Portland being the main city in Maine (but not the Capital) which had a very nice seaside big-town feel about it (similar to Halifax) and all had some fun in the children's museum and wander around the "old port" area.

And a new blog post wouldn't be complete without a related picasa album.