mexican adventure: Maine

August 30, 31st

We head across the border at Calais Maine after a stop at Duty Free to stock up on Canadian Beer for our visit with the Lulls, a tradition that we must up hold. We also get a few of Clay’s favourite brews for our visit with him.

As we drive through Maine, hurricane Irene has left it’s swath of damage. Trees downed and all of the deciduous tree leaves are brown and crispy from the drying effects of the high winds.

Will thinks that we should buy a house in Maine. This is quite a unique fixer upper opportunity and it deserves a picture. This would be a perfect location for a Halloween horror movie to be filmed.

We head for Route 1, which follows the shore. Clay has told us about a restaurant that was featured on the Food Network called the Lobster Dock boasting the best lobster rolls in Maine.

Being the foodies that we are we seek it out. The menu is overwhelming but we stick to our original plan and order the hot lobster roll. For a whopping $18, you get the meat of a whole lobster smothered in hot butter on a toasted sour dough roll. Although we thoroughly enjoyed it, we can’t agree that it was the best we’ve ever had.

As we leave, we check out a few hotels in the bay and find all of them unaffordable at about $180 a night and up so we move on and check out Baileys Island. After a very long drive we are starting to think that we are not going to find anything... never mind affordable! Finally, a resort with vacancies and we get a cottage on the ocean...ahhhh!

We aren’t in the mood to get back in the car again so dinner is from our wonderful, refrigerated cooler. Cold, barbeque chicken with fresh veggies and dip and, of course, some chilled white wine. We go to bed early because it is still quite a distance, we figure 8 hours at least, to the Lulls in NY State.

In the morning we realize just how beautiful the area is near our little cabin.