Sep 23, 2012 - Lubec, Maine

From the campground, we walked down to the Bass Harbor Lighthouse. The coast of Maine is very rocky here, dropping right down to the water. No beach at all. Back on the highway, we came across a blueberry store, Wild Blueberry Land. The smell of baking blueberry scones filled the air. We had to purchase some, plus blueberry spread and blueberry tea. What a neat, unique shop. The owners designed and built it themselves to sell their blueberries. Next we stopped at the Blue Bird Ranch Restaurant, Machais, Maine. After the main course, we...

Aug 27, 2012 - Drop In Company

First...I tried last evening to "post" but Trip Journal wouldn't cooperate. Yesterday afternoon Glen stepped outside and our neighbor next door here in the park says " you have friends that just checked in." Glen: "you mean someone from South Dakota." Neighbor: "no, someone that knows you." Glen: "I will have to go see who that is." Glen..inside talking to me: "Someone is here that knows us". Me: "I will bet it is Jim and Dee." Yes...Jim and Dee, our neighbors and friends from Zapata Texas, our winter home. We knew they were in this area....

Aug 25, 2012 - Our Version of "Lobstering"

Oh, my achy fingers! We drove to Cutler, Maine, 18 miles from the campground, where one may buy lobsters directly from the lobster fisherman. Current price is $3.20 per pound, which is up from $2.90. Still not too bad! Cutler is another scenic lobster Maine town. There isn't much else there except the lobstering business. We didn't see a grocery store or a filling station. There was a crew harvesting wild blueberries between here and Cutler. "Raking" blueberries is back-breaking work; but oh, my how delicious. Our RV campground provides...

Aug 24, 2012 - A quiet day on the homefront

No place to go and no schedule today. We got the bikes out and rode on a quiet road toward a state park. There were lots more hills on the bikes than when we drive it in the truck!! We sat outdoors with our books for quite a while in the afternoon. Glen with a paperback and me with the Kendle. We enjoyed the dinner view and watching the sunset this evening. Have a great week end.

Aug 23, 2012 - Back In The USA ***Sunset Point RV Park

Back to the USA! It is good to be home. Once again we are in Lubec, Maine, easternmost point in the USA, at the same rv park...as two weeks ago. We left Halifax Nova Scotia this morning and spent 8 hours on the road. We thought we might have to call CoachNet this afternoon. Glen had thought there was enough fuel in the mh to get back to the US. Wrong. There wasn't. The "check fuel" sign came on about an hour before the border. We stopped at a station and just put $60 worth in. The clerk in the store said "going south?" knowing the price is...

Aug 10, 2012 - History brought to life!

We crossed the FDR Memorial Bridge from Lubec Maine to Campobello Island, Brunswick, Canada this morning. We wanted to be at the Visitor Center when it opened at 10 Atlantic/9 Eastern time. Complimentary tickets (20) were given for an eleven o'clock sitting for "Tea with Eleanor". We looked around the grounds of the Roosevelt Cottage and the neighboring Hubbard Home. The Hubbard Home was the site of the Tea. Twenty of us were seated at five tables set with fine bone china, tablecloth and napkins. Three of our four had hot tea; I had...

Aug 9, 2012 - "Thar she blows!"

We went back to the easternmost point of the US at West Quoddy Lighthouse this morning but it was (still?) socked in! The visitor's center (small) was open and we walked through. At 12:45 we went to the marina where we had signed up for a whale-watching (finding?) tour. There were 17 watchers on board plus the captain and an assistant. We saw at least a dozen bald eagles along the shores of Campobello Island, both mature and immature, and two nests. There were many more sea birds the further we got out to sea. It is hard to use binoculars...

Aug 8, 2012 - The Easternmost Point of the US

We left Bar Harbor, Maine, for a two and a half hour trip up Highway 1 to Lubec, Maine, the easternmost point of the United States. When we checked into the campground the office manager told us that sunrise would be at 5:30 a.m.. Reckon we can muster up the energy to get up one morning to see sunrise before anyone?? The sun touches the first US land here at Lubec, and especially at the East Quoddy Lighthouse--about 5 miles from the rv park. THIS is the part of Maine we expected to see and have been looking for. It is a...

Aug 13, 2010 - Lubec, Maine

The 12th took us into Maine, the first time either Clark or I had been in the state and we have now been in all fifty. The border crossing was painless and quick and we went to Lubec, the easternmost town in the USA and had another camp site right on the water. That first afternoon, we went to the Quoddy lighthouse and now we were as far east as one can go in the US. We watched as seals and porpoises played off shore. Such a beautiful day. The next day, Clark, C.J. and the Andersons went off by themselves, as I was still puny. They first...

Jul 19, 2010 - West Quoddy Light House

As you get further north in Maine, everybody advertises themselves as the furthest east this and that so we visited the point that is said to be the furthest east in the US, West Quoddy Head Light House. It was built in 1885. In order to get there you have to go through Lubec, Maine, the eastern most town in the US and you pass the Quoddy Head Gift Shop, the eastern most gift shop in the US, and so on and so forth. An interesting fact about Lubec is that 2 people from the town were on American Airlines Flight 11 that crashed into the World...

Jul 9, 2010 - Lubec, Maine and Roosevelt Campobello International Park

CALAIS TO LUBEC, MAINE: We leave the Halifax area Wood Haven Campground early (about 6:45 am Thursday July 8) as we are eager to reach Maine and have better (inexpensive) cell phone service again once we get into the US. As we drive south into Maine, we see again many homes bearing large stars, which we believed initially depicted the loss of a loved one from that home in the service of the country, but later learned that it is merely a patriotic decoration (isn't the network great?)! We are reminded that we saw many of these stars also in...

Jul 5, 2010 - Lubec, ME - Sunset Point Trailer & RV Park

The drive from Trenton to Lubec was a very leisurely two hours covering 90 miles and a gas up along the way. We arrived here about noon and were set up shortly thereafter. We have 30 amps and water at the site. The campsite itself is very narrow but the views from the campground make up for it. The campground is almost empty now but is supposed to be full this weekend. Until then the closest RV is about 75 feet away. We have cell coverage but we believe we are getting service from Canada instead of the USA since we are so close (about a...