Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine

October 11, 2013

Vermont and New Hampshire are so small that they whiz by on our way to Maine.

We stopped along the road to enjoy the scenery and I had to give the big "V" for Vermont.  My overall impression of Vermont is trees and little tourist shops along the highway to tempt tourists with maple syrup and doo-dads.

We stopped and explored our first covered bridge here.  We didn't go to New York's "Madison County" to see the bridges that Clint Eastwood made the movie about but there is no shortage of covered bridges in the northeast it seems.

New Hampshire was the first state that finally told me that they had no room in the campground for us. For the first seven weeks we have been showing up in an area and the campground we pick has always had plenty of room.  Traveling in the off-season has been great.  Turns out that October is "high season" in Vermont and New Hampshire for the "leaf peepers".  Our first choice was full to our surprise.  The lady at the desk called another campground and secured us a spot in another campground that was only open because someone had cancelled at the last minute.  That is where this picture was taken as I add Vermont and New Hampshire stickers.  We did have our backup plan.  We spied a Catholic church and had decided that would be a good last minute overnight spot.
We have not had the opportunity to stay at a Walmart yet this trip.  It will happen though.  I am sure.

We pick Freeport Maine as our destination in Maine.  My first stop is for a lobster lunch.  I was a little disappointed because in the end you really don't get that much lobster meat from a whole lobster.

So this was the second course of my lunch.  A lobster roll.  Now, before you judge me, I would like to say that Mark did help me with the first meal as we were sharing it.  I did feel the need to gorge on lobster though.

I am not dancing to "YMCA" here.  This is the "M" for Maine.  I am still feeling the need to pose for my "sticker" pictures and am trying to jazz them up a bit.

This is one of the local state parks that featured a lighthouse.  We strolled the grounds and then found a  local "food truck" selling, what else?, lobster rolls. Yumm!

Freeport, Maine is the home to LL Bean.  Their store stays open 24 hours a day.  It sits on a huge campus.  Lindsey knows some of the people there and made arrangements for Mark to go out clay pigeon shooting on Sunday afternoon.  This is him.  They had a nice setup for shooting and also for archery which was about three miles out of town.
We were a little surprised to find out that the Freeport downtown area is a huge outdoor outlet mall with  LL Bean right in the middle of the whole deal.  On the Saturday and Sunday we were there it was basically gridlock in the downtown area which was packed with shoppers and cars.  It was about a 3 block mess.  I did manage to find some new pillows for the motorhome couch.