Maine!

We made it.  We stopped in Greenland, NH to fill up our diesel tank first and set a new record for us.

We actually paid just a little less than it shows, but wow!

Then up over the Piscataqua River into Maine.

I don't know how many of you know that Jan and I lived about 25 miles from here in NH for over 20 years, so it does feel a bit like going home again.  We pulled into our huge site at Bayley's Camping Resort in Scarborough, ME.  A very nice, absolutely huge place, hundreds and hundreds of sites, 3 pools, restaurants, on and on, a fabulously buzzing place especially on the weekend.

And we were greeted by some of the regulars:-)

Karen, Jan's sister and Tom pulled in about an hour later just in time for happy hour, excellent timing, so we had some time to catch up, especially since we hadn't seen Karen in a year.  Then we planned out some of our assault on the seafood.  It is cool here, mid 50's-60's, and has been even cooler, with some off and on rain and fog, and the last two days blowing a gale, so suffice to say springtime in New England:-)

So we dodged some raindrops and went the next day into Portland to Gilbert's for our first meal.

Clockwise, clam chowder in a bread bowl, fries, seafood chowder, another
seafood chowder, onion rings, and lobster stew.

Jan and I went over to the beach after, but it turned out our timing was bad.  It was high tide and no room to walk the beach, going to have to watch the tides closer.

Still a little foggy and rainy

Then Tom and Karen with a little help from me spent the next day finding an elusive water leak in their coach that was taken care of successfully, but with a bit of frustration:-)

We have reserved an offshore fishing trip while we are here, and Tom and I needed to get some boots, so we went south to the Kittery Trading Post  and found just what we needed along with several other items that we all needed as well.  And, of course, since we were down there we went for lunch at Newicks.

Awesome onion nuggets

Clam chowder the way it's supposed to be,
thin broth and full of clams

Fried whole belly clams

Haddock sandwich

Haddock bites

It was all delish.  So today we learned friends, Bob and Harlean are coming here on Saturday, so we'll be able to visit a bit before seeing them again later in the month.  And today we are going to LL Bean's and to lunch at Haraseeket Lunch, an institution, in South Freeport, in the same harbor where we kept our sailboat for awhile.  

So I'll warn you now, there are going to a lot of food pictures in the future as we have a ton of places to hit as we move around Maine.