Strawberry Hill Motor Inn Rockport

... on how to shell a whole lobster and we all got to see what the lobster ate for lunch. It was pretty gross, I will agree with Mara on that. However, it tasted REALLY good. Doug did himself in, literally, with a plate of about 30 clams, none of which the ladies or I helped him with. He paid for into into the night. Poor guy. We arrived in Camden late afternoon and found our way to a coastal motel. We met up with our old friends, Gus and Hillary in town at a ...

... even parts of Illinois. One thing common to all four provinces has been the warmth, kindness and genuineness of the people we have encountered. We have loved our three weeks in Canada and feel so blessed to have been able to have this experience.

We told the Bay of Fundy, "goodbye," this morning, drove back through the Fundy National Park and made our way West through New Brunswick. We crossed the ...

... island of Bar Harbor first thing this morning, but the road was closed and we had to turn around. Plan B! After stopping at McD's for a Diet Coke (big surprise!) we started our travels down Highway 1. This was such a great road...and the views were fantastic. We crossed an amazing bridge. It was high...and narrow! It was an architectural and engineering feat!

I was amazed at the number of ...

We are now only a few days from the end of this New England adventure and we are in full relaxation mode. So much so that I'm hard pressed to recall much of what we've done in the last 24 hours! Let me give it a try...

Yesterday afternoon we poked around Camden and gave ourselves a little driving tour of Lincolnville a few miles up the highway. We wrote a few postcards later and then we were back at our favorite ...

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The drive down was really nice. It felt more leisurely than the drive up for some reason...could have been that we've been on vacation a week longer now or it could have been the cold medicine. Whatever it was, it was a nice drive...

We had lunch and dinner at the ...

Hey everyone!  Well, we've left the big city of Boston-but only after dinner at Sorellina's and a wonderful trek through the Museum of Fine Art.  Dinner was phenomenal: Paul had the best lobster ever...I had Kobe beef meatballs on pasta and veal.  Yum, yum.  Friday morning we toured the museum where they had a wonderful show on three Italian masters: Titian, Tintoretto and Veronesse.  Then we we-right smack in the middle of Boston!  Both of these ...

It's always good to see an architect when your life needs a redesign, so off we go to Maine and our friend Ken Chipman and his dearest Jennifer. He's been dropping in on us in Hawaii for years so we are returning the favor. Beautiful food, hikes and people. We even managed to surprise Ellen and Glen Hibbard and were treated to delicious lasagna! Mahalo!

... hand side of some bays or water. Certainly only the odd glimpse of water and the occasionally wind down to a bay to show us a lot of boats moored in coves, but just enough to annoy us to wonder what views we were missing. Never mind we were not overly fussed, simply the question of interpretation of Scenic! The goal was to find the sea port of Bar Harbor, for some reason this has called us to visit. Through a town called Ellsworth and down onto what is called "the All ...

Today we went to maine. On the way to Maine we made a special stop by Red's Eats to get a famous lobster roll. They were really good and surprisingly good. We also had whoopee pies which are just souped up ho hos. Those were also a good treat. Then we made our way to Camden Hills to see the beautiful sites of Maine. It was really breath taking. Maine was more than i had inspected in a good way. We had a good time there and it was fun getting to see and spend time with Grant and Lisa. Hank

... small harbor, looks just like one would imagine the Maine coastline: rocky beach, stately cottages, spruce and pine trees. After supper, we walked into the evening and continued once when we woke up the next morning. We could have just kept walking, except that this is a ROAD trip, so back in the car we went and headed north.