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!