Seriously?!

I dunno...I keep thinking...this is so perfect! (Except for missing my extended family big time) But then...God just one ups it!  You think this is perfect?!  Just wait...
Okay...here's the day with plenty of pics and maybe even a video.  Of what, you ask?  Oh, just an amazing glimpse of God's creation...that's all.  No big thang.  Here we go...
I warned you yesterday, this is how the day would start:

 

 

And so it did!  But was relatively painless, and there is something so satisfying about clean laundry when you've been on a week long road trip.  So...fluff and fold, then off to breakfast which was...

Irish Corned Beef Hash Benedict.  As you can see, I already dove into it before I remembered to take a pic for the blog.  Delish.  And I am proud to say I did NOT eat the whole thing.  Ha ha!
Okay...so after consuming 9 million trillion calories...I needed to do some serious walking.  Off we went to Camden, Maine, 20 miles down the road. 

 
We visited a knitting shop, *heaven*...

 

Which I will definitely visit again.

 

Then...we picked up a picnic lunch of fresh baked bread, cheese, and fruit, and headed to Camden State Park.  Here it is.  Not sure if this video will work, but hopefully it will.  I'll admit it.  I actually cried.  It was just so beautiful  Next to the birth of my beautiful daughter, and my precious grandchildren...this was the most beautiful sight I think I've ever seen.  The video does not do it justice.  But God's creation...oh my. 

 

Okay, so anyway...hope that worked.  We came back to our motel in Belfast, Tom napped and I took care of some business by phone.  Took a drive up to Hampden where Tom was able to see his new home for the first time (at least from the outside...final walkthrough will be tomorrow).  Still scheduled to close on our home Thursday.  Back in Belfast for dinner overlooking the harbor.  We had homemade blueberry pie for dessert.  I mean, Holy Cow.  Seriously?! 

More and more later to be sure.  God is so very good.

Vacationland

Well, here we are, at the end of our 2nd day in Maine.  A short re-cap in pics:

 

Stonewall Kitchen Flagship store in York, Maine

  



Lunch was lobster mac-n-cheese

Belfast, Maine




Harbor in Belfast, Maine

 

So...tomorrow should be a fascinating post...we have to do...LAUNDRY!!! Maybe there will be something else interesting...you'll have to wait and see! 


 



The Road Trip

Well dear readers, it's time to catch up, so grab a cup of coffee or tea and settle in!  Be warned...this will be a long post!
Finally, finally, we are here in Maine! And it's incredible.  And we finally feel like we're home.  Even though technically we're still about 170 miles away.  We traveled across 11 states and logged over 2000 miles before crossing the beautiful Piscataqua Bridge into Maine.  Along the way, God blessed us with beautiful weather, and endurance! Ha ha.  Last Thursday we made it to Jackson, TN...

 

Then Friday it was onward to Virginia. 

Tennessee was beautiful, green rolling hills and farms.  Virginia was amazing...the flora and fauna...driving down the road was like opening an 18th century botanical encyclopedia,  Every tree, flower, plant that God created was represented I'm pretty sure.  Saturday we continued on to Pennsylvania where we became horribly lost and we both started to really feel the wear and tear of the travel.  We finally found our hotel and collapsed in our room.  Knowing the hardest part of our trip lay ahead, we crashed early and got up at 4:00 am.  We were on the road by 5, hoping there would be less traffic at that hour on a Sunday morning.  And thank goodness we did.  We took a route that allowed us to miss Manhatten, the Bronx, etc.  The scenery was beautiful, for sure, but never having traveled those roads, and not knowing what might lie ahead, made for some anxious driving.

 

Crossing the Hudson River...we had to pay a $5.00 toll...Tom said the toll keeper should have handed him a cold beer for the 5 bucks just for making it through NY!  (Joking, of course! Kind of.)

We stopped for breakfast in Newtown, CT (the town where the tragic school shooting took place) and had the best French toast ever at the Blue Colony Diner (off Exit 10, if you're in the area! ha ha)  Onward we drove...and drove...and yesterday afternoon we arrived at the most wonderful Bed and Breakfast in the quaint Oceanside village of York, ME.  What a way to start off our Maine

adventure!  We woke up to a gentle rain (rain, what's that you ask?) and we will spend the day meandering up the coast of Maine.  More pics and deets later my friends! I think I actually, finally, feel...retired!