Update...

Hi.

So, time for an update?!  It took us 5,476 miles to reach Maine...we did zig-zag a bit on the path to the Northeast.  We have now visited 27 states on this trip (California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine); and now we are in Massachusetts.

We will be taking the "Bean Town Trolley Tour" tomorrow (Sunday) and then do a little site-seeing on our own in Boston.

As we drove into Boston, we discovered some of their roads are as bad as roads in California...and that's tough to beat!  We were traveling a little under the speed limit of 45mph when we came across what I will call a "bump-in-the-road".  The motorhome did NOT get launched into the air...but got about as close as a 20,000 pound vehicle (towing a 4,000 pound car) can be bounced upward without being airborne.   Then the front end came down with a bang.   We hit the "stops" as they say.   That was the scariest bounce I have ever taken in the motorhome.   I was hoping we didn't break anything.  Well....when we arrived at the campsite, I looked under and around the motorhome.   The bounce was so intense that it broke-off the bottom bracket on one of our front shock absorbers and bent the bracket backwards.  A circular bracket is now sticking straight up in the air (it is not a circle anymore)...and the shock absorber is hanging down.   Not the way it is supposed to be. ;-)

We  will take our Boston tour tomorrow and work at getting the shock absorber issue fixed on Monday.

It's all good.

Take care.
Don & Sandi

Maine!

Hi.

We made it to Portland...Portland, Maine!   Of course, this is as far eastward as we will travel unless we go sailing.

Maine is pretty much like we imagined...beautiful and serene....the homes, the scenery, the atmosphere.  We took a drive down to the shore today at Wolfe's Neck State Park on the Casco Bay (about 15 miles north of Portland).  We then had lunch at a seaside restaurant where a lot of the locals go.  I had a lobster roll and it was muy bueno!

We are actually camping in Freeport (just north of Portland).   Freeport is the home of  L.L. Bean and there are over 130 different outlet-type stores along the Main(e) Street. The  LL Bean store is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  I guess the local Maine-ians love those products.  It was fun to walk through the downtown area and (mostly) window-shop.

We will relax around the campground on Friday and then head for Boston for a few days of site-seeing.

Take care.
Don & Sandi

Baseball Hall of Fame

Hi.

Sandi and I had a very nice lunch-time visit with Kevin and Donna in Syracuse, NY yesterday.  Kevin was in charge of maintenance and operations at Logan when I was the House #3 principal back in the mid-90's.   We had a great time of catching-up.

Today Sandi and I went to Cooperstown, NY and visited the Baseball Hall of Fame.  We really enjoyed the visit and seeing all of the awards, memorabilia, photographs, paintings, and sculptures.   A rather amazing place; in fact, it became a bit overwhelming because there were so many items to view and read about.   I kept saying, "Wow!"...then I would turn the corner to another display and say, "Wow!".   It was a lot of fun.

We then traveled some of the smaller highways in New York state, and we eventually made it into Vermont.  Tomorrow we head for New Hampshire and Maine.  We will spend a few days resting in Maine.

Take care.
Don & Sandi