Day 5 - Tuesday, August 8

We got up at 5:20 a.m. and took a lot of sunrise over the ocean pictures, then went back to bed until 10:30 a.m. As we were getting ready to go downstairs for breakfast, I saw that the adjacent room was vacant and open. It was on the front side, and had a big picture window with a great ocean view. I went downstairs to the front desk, and arranged for us to move over to that room. It was similar, but larger, and we really liked it a lot better. We had breakfast in the beautiful old dining room with great views of the ocean. We had eggs and bacon, potatoes, toast and juice. Then we were off to see coastal New Hampshire and Maine.

We took I-95 up to Portsmouth, NH, and got off at a beach area nearby. It was incredibly crowded, like Ocean City, Maryland had been, with thousands of people on the beach and the adjacent boardwalk and shops. After taking some pictures, and driving north a little ways, we stopped in the southernmost part of Maine and got directions to some nearby cliffs. There was a neat cliff trail, and we walked on it for about a half an hour, taking pictures along the way. We found that we couldn’t get back on I-95 for many miles. Traveling along the coastal road was incredibly slow and congested, and we were finally able to get back on the highway at Kennebunk. We decided to head back to Gloucester and try Maine again tomorrow. We stopped at a mall in Peabody, MA, and bought pillowcases, camcorder tape, memory card reader, etc. Then we finally got back to our hotel, and requested a 5:30 wake-up call. This time, we could shoot pictures from our room….