Saco, MAine

Today we traveled to Maine, a short 54 mile trip. Judy checked out a full size chocolate Moose. It gets a new coat of chocolate every year to keep it fresh.

Whale watching & sand sculptures

I stayed home today nursing an upset stomach due to a bad clam. Judy went with the rest of the gang to Salisbury beach where there were some sand sculptures to be photographed. After that they all went on a whale watching cruise. Unfortunately the whales were further away and moving for their photo session.

Glouster & Rockport

Today we all drove the back roads down to Glouster to check out the well known fishing town. The statue of the fisherman is dedicated to the almost 5400 know seamen lost at sea since 1719, and they are all named by year lost. We also stopped at a small park where we could watch boats from the fishing fleet coming & going out to sea.

Our next stop was the artist colony Rockport. We wanted to find the Chowder House but alas, it is gone. We did have a nice lunch overlooking the water.

We are now all together again in New Hampshire

Today we travelled 50 miles with Mel & Dee to South Hampton, NH. When we arrived Stan & Connie had already arrived and set up. They drove in from VT. We will be here 4 nights for some R&R plus some sightseeing AND we have to get NH on our travel map.

After we were rested we all went to the Old Salt restaurant that was highly recommended....real good chowder and fish but Gulf shrimp are better!

Return to Maynard....44 years later

Here's downtown Maynard and the old woolen mill where Judy & I worked in 1967 to 1971. It's still working now with several small businesses and Monster.com as the current occupants. During the Civil War it made blankets for the Union troops. It took a couple of us a year to figure out how to get into the clock tower.....but we did.

Everything has changes quite a bit, Maynard now has a McDonalds, Wendys & one way streets.

We moved into the duplex after Jody was born in 1969 because we needed more room. I could walk to work from here.

Our third residence was the left half of the now blue duplex in Maynard, the little garage held our 1969 Dodge Dart 340. All the restaurants we frequented were gone except the best place to get a grinder.

The place on the left was our first apartment in Littleton Common when we moved to Maynard in 1967. It's been seriously remodeled, we lived on the left side & it was a dump. We were the first renters in the brick complex in Acton, our second apartment was on the basement floor left of the front door.

Back to Massachusetts, one more time

Today Mel & Dee made the 107 mile drive with us to Littleton, MA in the rain. Stan & Connie were off to western Massachusetts for one night then Vermont for one night before the three of us link up again in three days in New Hampshire. They needed to get Vermont on their way north while Judy & I will stay there on our way back to Michigan in 3 or 4 weeks. The CG we are in with Mel & Dee has more trees & rocks than any we have been in before. No air conditioning today.....the heat pumps are running, it's 56, wet and dismal. Tomorrow Mel & Dee will tour Boston while Judy & I check out where we lived & worked over 40 years ago.

Narragansett Bay cruise

This evening we took a sunset cruise on Narragansett Bay on the Martha's Vineyard ferry. As you can see there was zero sunset, all clouds. Doesn't my Judy look nice & warm? That's not our campground but one on an island we saw from the boat. Prior to the cruise we stopped for a nice dinner at a cozy restaurant in Wickford. These "quaint" cities are not accommodating to one ton dually trucks.

Here's 4 (or what's left of 1) of the 10 lighthouses we saw on the sunset cruise.