Hilton Garden Inn Portland Airport

... day in Freeport, MN.



Things we Observed:

· Most semi trucks have additional tandem axels under their trailer. Some have 9 axels and B-trains have up to 13.

· The interstate highway service centers are spectacular – they have everything a traveler needs (overnight parking, fuel, travel info, groceries, fast foods i.e ...

... Hwy I-90 is a beautiful 4-lane interstate but crowded with turnpike/thruway toll booths; we must have paid a fee at a dozen of them. Total cost = $40.

· We crossed the Adirondack, Appalachian, White and Catskill mountains (all about as big as our foothills) and the Hudson valley at Albany.

· Throughout this route, we noticed that the ...

... our travels with you through this blog and hope it goes successfully. One of our audiences will be Sophie and Isabelle's classes...."hello fellow classmates/teachers". We hope to bring to this blog our personal experiences and reactions as well as some history and educational value. The girls would also like to challenge the classes with periodic questions about our destination to see if the classes can come up with the answers.

... the ocean to visit Old Orchard Beach. The beach could be mistaken for any beach in Hawaii except that the water is freezing. The beach was beautiful but the actual town was Coney Island like with carnival rides and lots and lots of tacky tourist shops. We continued on to Wells along the coast passing many beautiful homes and beaches.

The sun was shining brightly the next day so we decided to go to Kennebunkport. It soon became ...

... had no idea there were so many! but you can only see them by boat, and turns out maine has the longest coastline of any of the 50 states (i'm pretty sure this is what chris told me). some islands have lots of houses on them, plus a few stores, maybe a school. some kids have to take a ferry to the mainland for school in portland. but some islands are privately owned and have only 1 or 2 houses on them. if maine wasn't ...

... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDZy6-fM Cw4

Pues como iba diciendo, nos hemos ido a este restaurante llamado Chauncy Creek Lobster Pound. Como podéis ver en el enlace es un restaurante que simula un muelle, todo de madera y con mesas de colores repartidas por el borde. Lo de muelle no es sólo estética ya que los de la mesa de al lado han venido en el barquito ese que se ve en las fotos. Como no podía ser de otra manera, nos hemos ...

I left at 4:45am to be sure to get to Portland in time. The ferry was leaving at 8 am and you are supposed to be there an hour early for boarding. I ended up being relatively near the front of the line which was really nice when getting off in Nova Scotia.

The ship was amazing, very large. It can hold 220 vehicles, including buses and travels at speeds up ...

... next 5 days of travel. It's now 5 p.m. here, dry and so I'm going to take this opportunity before dinner, to take this very patient travel partner out for a run on the beach... Later! Oh, I heard a great phrase that Obama used today at a speech somewhere, one that he should be using more often! *** John McCain is trying to distance himself from Bush like Robin from Batman*** PS #2: The sniffles are losing the battle, I'm feeling much better today, yay!

When we checked in yesterday the ladies in reception had insisted that we should try the Merry Moose, the little log cabin in the grounds of the site that served pancakes and waffles for breakfast. So we wandered down there and put in our order for blueberry pancakes. A word of warning if you visit this KOA! The pancakes are huge! About 8 inches in diameter and about half an inch thick! And so a portion of two ...

Played at the Dog Fish, met up with friend GPP all the way from Boston. Got to meet friends he grew up with. Rained soft that night. I thought and inquired about climbing Mt. Washington, but learned it was not an option. Interesting day of reflection and movement.