Onward to Maine

After our last post we spent 3 days with Michael, Karen and the boys. We had a nice visit and I had  a great time with the boys. Alex and Luke had never spent time with me in the camper. Unfortunately with school, soccer, etc. I wasn't able to take either one on a camping trip but I did have a movie night out in the camperone evening. Alex put all the curatins down, I had a snack for them and we watched a video for an hour and a half. They really seemed to have fun out there with me. watched Alex play soccor on saturday and then we all went into downtown New Bedford  for their  Fishing Fleet openhouse (boat) festival. It was fun walking around and touring all the fishing boats. the boys had a blast.

Garry and I left on Sunday and drove to Taunton, MA where we had lunch with some friends of Garry's. We then continued North and spent Sunday night at a military campground. We were glad to be able to plug in as it POURED rain all night. Beautiful spot right on the Ocean although we had fog so our view was not great. Then it was on to Kennebunkport, Maine.  Toured  the landing boat building school and then went into town to get real New England fried clams for dinner. Delicious!!! Unable to find a place to park so we went to a Walmart for the night. It was at least off teh highway but all the 18 wheeler trucks that came in all night  long woke us up all night long. We remembered why we don't like to stay there. In the morning it was still rainy and foggy as we drove  on to Rockland, Maine where Garry had his Coast Guard tug reunion. We clicked over 15,000  miles when we got into Rockland.

We spent 5  nights visiting with an old girlfriend of Garry's. I had met Beverly several years ago and we have become very good friends also.

Bev and I

I was glad to have her to visit and explore with while Garry was off doing things with his USCG reunion. We had a few days of great weather with a few days of rain and fog. Garry enjoyed the reunion. Friday night was the Big Dinner and Garry put his Coast Guard uniform on again! It fit!!!

I love a man in uniform!

 On Saturday Bev and I toured along the maine coast attending Craft shows, having lunch at a pig roast and ending with a wonderful performance of the Penobscot Bay hand Bell Ringers before she dropped me off to meet Garry for the tug assoc. lobster dinner. On Sunday we left rockland and drove up to bar harbor to visit with some other friends, Kevin and Teresa, and their 2 darling kids. We had a wonderful visit with them and I was able to get a "grandmother fix" as I played with them. They had work and school on Monday so we left and drove through Acadia National Park. The leaves are changing and were pretty but we are sightly early for the full blown vivid leaf colors. We then went back to Rockland for 1 more  night with Bev  so that garry could finally catch up with some other friends he knew who had been under te weather and not up for a visit earlier in the week.

Last  night we stopped by another friend of Garrys in Milford, NH. We had a delightful visit with them. Dick is a retired  Fire Chief and has a beautifully restored fire engine in his garage. His wife barbara is a fabulous quilter who quilts by hand rather than machine. She put me to shame.

Chief Dick and Barbara and the Fire Engine! 

After breakfast with them this morning we headed for Boston/ Quincy, Mass where we toured  the Adams Nation Historic park which is run by the NPS. It has been poring rain all day but we enjoyed the tour. Garry is particularly awed by John Adams. Tonight we will be staying with Michael and his family agian before we  head back to Connecticut tomorrow.