Good Bye Maine!

We had one more day left in Ellsworth when I left you, so we made the most of it.  We both were feeling like salads, and we really liked Timber in Bangor so up we went.  Quite good.

Beef

Ahi Tuna

It was a nice day, something we have been in short supply of this year so we drove down to Belfast and took a walk along their harbor path, which goes right through a working boatyard.  Lots of really interesting boats to see, and a great walk.

Starting across the pedestrian bridge towards town

This is a steel steamship, you can see its stack, built in 1902, one of only 3 left in the world

This is a new 136' sailboat based in the Marshall Islands waiting to get its mast stepped

Heading back after turning around in the park

Then the next morning after Jan made some delicious sticky wings for dinner, we were off to our last week in Scarborough.  As I mentioned we had this week totally booked up:-)

Our lunch along the road to Scarborough!

This time at Bayley's we had a nice site right on one of their ponds.

The next day, we went to a favorite Vietnamese restaurant for lunch, followed up by a visit to an asian market.  No pictures to give you a break, besides we ate a lot of the same things I've shown you in the past.  

We needed to rotate the truck's tires, completed the next morning, followed by one last sortie down to the Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, which turned out to be a mistake in many ways.  First of all the traffic and crowds of people were insane, secondly their famous lobster rolls and onion rings which we have had many times before were really lacking, barely enough lobster to cover the roll, and $10 for 6 onion rings!  Are they resting on their laurels?  And thirdly when we went around the corner to our seaside bench, the fog was so thick we could hardly see each other.  So we decided after that disappointment we would run down to NH to the liquor store, then to another asian market in Portsmouth, and come back by way of a farm stand hoping they would have early baby potatoes, but no, too early in the season.

Jan needed to get her hair done, which she did after which we went and had another Vietnamese lunch followed by a stop at the fish market to get more fish for dinner and mostly freezing.  So now we have vacuum packed frozen fish portions for two; 15-Cod, 4-Haddock, 4 Halibut, 3-Scallop, and 4-mixed portions for chowder!  We are set for at least a little while:-)

We took care of a few items for our road trip, we'll be in Montana in 2 weeks, one stop of 3 nights at our son Jason's and Joanne's, all the rest are either 1 or 2 night max, going to be trucking along.  

That left our last day, Friday.  We had quite a bit planned, first to meet Bob and Harlean, and Scott and Sue at the Red Barn in Augusta for lunch and a visit, great, great visit and delicious food to boot, we also picked up a quart of the best seafood stew in the world:-)  And I promised the next time we'd get together there would be pictures which we forgot last time, and sure enough by the time we finally thought of it this time, Scott and Sue had already left, so no offense guys.

Moi, Harlean, Jan, and Bob
See you next year!

Then we stopped at a fish market on the way back to bolster our scallop count, and then the pièce de résistance, we wanted to have a lobster dinner on our last night in Maine and we also wanted enough lobster meat for two more lunches of lobster rolls for our drive.  We found a little family run lobster place right near the campground with very good prices, and friendly service, so we stopped in for 3 large lobsters for our dinner, and 4 chix for our rolls, and then just as we starting cooking it started to pour rain.  But we rolled out our awning, moved the cooker and all was well.

Hard to tell, but it's pouring

The final happy result

We're off!