Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel - Portland

Along the way:<br><br>Heading to Portland, Maine (to visit Tom, Denise &amp; Foster) we drove from Milton, through the Lewiston border crossing (N of Niagara Falls), through New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and finally into Maine, an 11 hour drive. Surprisingly, there are no orchards or farms east of the Niagara River &#8211; it's all bush. <br><br ...

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

... in the late 1700'S to the 1930"s. The Shakers had rather odd beliefs including celibacy. The men and women worked alongside each other but were separated in the dining and bedroom areas. Needless to say the Shakers have literally all died out except for 3 very elderly members still living in the community. We visited a larger Shaker Community in Hancock, Massachucetts in 2003. The Shakers are a very interesting group! We drove back ...

... in cold snow for the majority of the year i'd consider moving there.<br><br>for lunch we sailed up to a seafood restaurant called Cook's. we had a slight buoy mishap, that sent me running around the small bay to save the buoy but it was also the first exercise i'd had in days so that was good.<br><br>lunch at Cook's was a-w-e-s-o-m-e. we had steam-ahs and fresh maine lobstah in maine. simple boiled lobstah. it was awesome.<br>

... es a un masaje de pies que hemos visto en la guía. En un ambiente un poco zen y con un té en la mano nos han dado un masaje en pies y gemelos genial. Nos hemos quedado mucho más sopazas de lo que estamos (¡que ya es decir!) y nos hemos ido más contentos que unas castañuelas. Y con los pies estiraditos :)<br><br>Ahora a ver el tiempo para estos días a ver cuando podemos ir a Hampton y conocer al Orlando Bloom ese de una vez... :)<br>

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 ...