Day 14: Bar Harbor to Rochester New Hampshire

Approaching a coastal bridge.

 I like this picture; took a lot of them from this spot using the Nikon. The picture below is from our room looking into the motel parking lot this morning. It does not capture reality; but we like the sound of the rain OUTSIDE and are glad we choose not to stay in the tent last night.

So, day 14: Yeah. It's only 200 miles or so. But they were grueling, through congested, crowded, narrow streets, where we either annoyed some drivers because we'd only drive five miles over the speed limit, or because we wanted to see the road signs rather than them be a blur due to our car's velocity. We drove through Kennebunk, ME and through a number of other busy places. There were lengthy delays due to construction. We finally decided to head inland, away from the coast and that proved a blessing. We did see some of what we imagined New Hampshire to be; narrow country roads with little traffic and outstanding foliage. We made an early stop around 5:00 PM and decided to stay at an inexpensive inn called the "Greenwood Inn". It has pretensions of grandeur, but the room was clean, did not smell, and was pretty quiet. Except for the re-assuring sound of rain. A big 'nor-easter' blew in and is dumping 1-3 inches of rain to be followed by winds of up to 50 mph gusts. Makes this ol' Oregon coast boy feel right at home. And it's a fairly warm rain. But the wind should knock most of the leaves from the trees. Anyway, we'll point the Acura south and to the west today and should begin working our way into better weather as we go. This is a large storm and we may still have some showers tonight even though we are going in the opposite direction from the storm. Oh.....and still learning things about Caren after these 30 great years.....she's got this fascination with old churches with spires so she's been snapping photos like crazy...she's kind-of worked through taking pictures of cemetaries (probably because she's running out of memory cards)---but the latest thing I've noticed is that she's taking photos of flaggers at the road construction sites. This alarms some of them. And me. I will keep tabs on that and post the evidence from her camera when I can get hold of it for a while. She may claim that she takes these pics because she does not want me to risk her life by using my cell phone camera when I should be driving, avoiding potholes (and other drivers), and looking out for pedestrians. But blame-shifting and denial are the first steps.....