Massachusetts to Maine.
Woke up, packed up camp. We'll be sorry to leave this wonderful little piece of God's creation. Drove out of the Forest for the last time and made a gas stop in Plymouth. We headed north, driving around Boston. Would have dearly loved to spend some time there, but when planning a trip with three destinations, sacrifices must be made. I can someday see a city trip to New York City and Boston in my future.
Got to the New Hampshire border. New Hampshire has all of 17 miles of coastline, and I-95 turns into a toll road the entire 17 miles. Cost us $2.25 to go those 17 miles. Light rain had started somewhere around Boston, and followed us much of the rest of the day.
We made it into Maine, and chose to follow US 1 for the scenery and to avoid the Maine Turnpike. I had told Steve that I wanted to make a stop "to see the world." Yes, it involved caching. We stopped at Yarmouth, Maine, at DeLorme World Headquarters. DeLorme is one of the largest map makers in the world, and they have created "Eartha", an incredibly large globe taking up all of their lobby. There is a virtual cache around Eartha, as well as another cache called DeLorme Coin Vault. Took credit for both, and also bought an Eartha geocoin. Makes for a nice souvenir.
We were hoping for some Wi-Fi to check the radar on weather.com, and noticed that the nearby visitors center had free wifi. Coincidentally, it also had a cache. Cache and wifi, what more could you want. Radar wasn't too promising but it is what it is, weather wise. Can't change it and we are a two day trip from home.
We continued on our way and finally made it to Bangor, where we turned southeast and headed for Bar Harbor. We arrived at our campground, Hadley's Point, and set up camp. Nice campground though not very full as the "season" doesn't start until Memorial Day weekend. Since it wasn't the season yet, we received the spring special, which was stay two nights, get the third free. That would become even more important later in the trip.
We had been spoiled by that new bathhouse in Massachusetts. These bathrooms were more typical campground style. Flush toilets, running water, nothing fancy. Showers were separate, and cost 50 cents for 7 minutes. Free wifi but it didn't always reach to our campsite, so I spent the later evenings here in the laundry room checking email and facebook and posting cache logs.
We had hamburgers for dinner tonight, the second half of the package of 4 that I'd bought in Plymouth. Paired with couscous, a nice dinner. Steve to bed fairly early (sun set even earlier than in Mass.) and I was off to the laundry room for internet after making sure Max was settled in with Steve.
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