September 20-22, 2009 The East Coast Adventure Continues…

Sunday afternoon we came to Fort Kent NY where we boarded a ferry boat, the MoHo, the Towed, and the 4 of us crossed Lake Champlain. It was a wonderful ride, beautiful, sunny and the water was fairly calm. Fun to talk to others on board who couldn’t believe we were from Oregon (Oregone). After about an hour’s cruise we landed and were in the state of Vermont. Off to Waterbury where we visited the home of Ben & Jerry’s and took the tour and of course ate ice cream. Fun stop and soon we were back on the road for another hour or so and stopped for the night in Quechee VT.
Monday morning we ate breakfast at a very authentic and good diner, their menu featured local produce, meats, and bakery goods. We then drove around the area, taking in the Village of Woodstock (no not that Woodstock) quite gentrified and almost too perfect looking, something off a picture postcard perhaps. Most of the towns that we drive through have cemeteries that date back to the late 1700’s with big granite headstones, a lot of granite rock in this area, so we guess that put it to good use. Rolling on down our favorite Highway 2 we went through many more villages, each with their own personalities. We left Vermont and entered the state of New Hampshire, another gorgeous state, indeed. Many of the homes along the roadside decorate for autumn with porches displaying pumpkins, scarecrows and beautiful pots of mums. At a local grocery store we say huge 5 gallon pots with dozens of blooms for only $5. Our stop for the night was just outside Gorham NH – just a hop, skip and a jump from Maine.
Tuesday is the first day of fall – and the evenings and mornings are beginning feel a bit crisp. We saw a good bit of tree color today. They call it leaf peeping when you are out driving and looking for fall colors. We crossed into Maine and continued to admire more countryside along the way. We kept our eyes peeled for a sighting of a moose, saw road signs warning of them, but to no avail. We stopped for the evening in Bangor ME. Took Mike out to a brew pub dinner at the Sea Dog Brewing Company. We ate the dinner special a bucket of lobster – 3 lobsters (a.k.a. Larry, Mo, & Curly) and fries for $19.95. Oh were they ever sweet and delicious, served of course with the obligatory melted butter, mmmmm, YUM! Think we will have to sample some more of this delicacy during our next few days in Maine.