Eastview Motel Saco
924 Portland Rd Saco, Maine, 04072, United States
Travel Blogs Nearby
The rain came plainly in Maine!
Wow it rained and rained! The roof wasn't so good at keeping the water out in the hotel.......
I'm in the driving seat too.... I had my confidence knock while driving in Boston the overtaking both side kinda got the better of me an i got beeped at!!! Nige also was nervous with me driving which has also knocked confidence so I'm off to McDonald's to get my bacon ranch salad (which is what I'm living on) by myself ...
Maine State House
I checked out of my hotel in Bar Harbor and headed for Augusta to visit the Maine Capitol or Maine State House as they prefer to refer to it. Like most state capitols, it's a neo-classical,stone, symmetrical building with a central dome. I'm told that the original design of the building most closely resembles the Massachusetts Capitol since Charles ...
Who knew Maine could get so wet?!
... head north a bit on US-1 and then east a bit and then come back, and that's just what we did. Took the ME-27 right down a finger of land to the very end, with nothing between us and home but the Atlantic, then slowly back by a different road to US-1. By this time it was late afternoon and the rain was still hammering down so we repaired back to Portland and visited the Maine Mall.
I'll quickly draw a veil ...
The Other Portland
... d think they’d steam the clothes before putting them out on the shop floor; I know we’re bargain-hunters, but we’ve got standards. Between the soiled clothing and my body’s inability to regulate itself, I was soon drinking in the aforementioned coffee shop just so I could sit down and prevent myself from fainting from this strange illness that seemed to have taken residence overnight.
Refuelled and ready to go, and with the sun back in ...
Saco, ME
... They told us when we checked in to let us know if we want to take the trolley because they would have to call it since it wasn't just running like it normally does over the summer. When Jim stopped in to let them know that we did want to take the 6pm trolley, but they informed us that they called and the trolley wasn’t running today. So that changed our plans and we ended up just building a fire, making some dinner and hanging out by the fire.
...



