End of Our Time Here, and It Can't Come Too Soon (Watch Out, More Food)

I know it sounds like I'm complaining, and I guess I am, this spring is one of the worst we have ever experienced here in New England.  It has been cold, and rained almost every day, we have had shorts on exactly twice in the 7 weeks we've been here.  In fact, over the last 30 hours, we got over 2 1/2" of rain!  And no, we are not strangers to New England springs having spent 20 years here.  We have done little more than eat out and cook in trying to diminish the amount of seafood here in Maine.  Even the forecast is for more cool temps and rain, rain, rain.  Oh well, could be worse, could be in Florida with 90+ degrees and 90+ humidity:-)  No contest.

So three more lunches out and then we move up the coast to Wiscasset for a few days, then on to Bangor, where we were finally going to be able to wash our filthy coach, but with all the rain forecast, we'll have to play it by ear.

The campground here in Scarborough just made its transition to summer rates and we are seeing the clientele change.  The site we are sitting on for the last 7 weeks at $43/night is now at $130/night!!  And the people keep coming?  Inflation and demand has really affected the campground rates along with everything else.  We think we are seeing a slight decrease in demand though, we were able to make reservations throughout this year even as late as we made them, might be starting to ease at last.

So as I mentioned in my last post we had our eating out plans all made for this past week.  And one good thing, we managed to add 2 new restaurants to our schedule.  But first we just had to go back to The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport for their amazing unique lobster roll and whole belly clam roll.  Scrumptious!  And the weather allowed us to eat out on a picnic bench overlooking the ocean, but still not warm enough for shorts.

Then not to be outdone Jan made this delicious shrimp and noodle stir fry.

Jan wanted to go to the LL Bean outlet in Freeport, so we started looking for a new restaurant nearby.  We found one, but it wasn't open on the day we were going so we did find a new to us place in Harpswell another 20 miles or so down the road, Dolphin Marina and Restaurant way out on the end of a peninsula, and if the weather had been a little better we would have had a view of one of our favorite anchorages when we had our sailboat, Jewell Island.  It turned out to be quite a find, in fact later this week while in Wiscasset, we intend to go back for another lunch.  Really great food, nice service, and stellar views.

They bring out these awesome warm wonderful blueberry muffins!

The top is scallop fritters, a new thing for us, very good,
and fried haddock and housemade chips

Oh, did I mention the haddock chowder

Jewell Island is way out there in the fog

Then we went to another new to us restaurant called Thanh Thanh 2, and had a wonderful lunch, sat near a guy there who was absolutely raving over the dish he was eating to the point where I couldn't help myself and asked what is was?  He told us it was Bo Tai Chenh, a Vietnamese beef carpaccio salad.  He was so stoked by it, we decided to go back the very next day and both Jan and I ordered it, if anything it was even better than his ravings!  We loved it and plan to go back there yet again today:-)

Shrimp and beef Bun

Beef pho

This is the amazing Vietnamese beef carpaccio

Fried salt and pepper calamari

And I should add two more dishes we had today:-)

Bikini shrimp

Ga Kho, carmelized chicken

Yeah, we had the carpaccio also:-)

On the rainy Saturday while it poured the 2+ inches of rain we finally got our Netflix and soundbar squared away to watch a movie after we went out for one more repeat restaurant, Burano's.

So now we have one more trip to Wells to go to Billy's for lunch, gonna miss buck a shuck day, instead will have dollar shrimp day, then Wednesday on the road!  Yay, we've been sitting here a long time.