Day 7 - August 10, 2006

Nice small hotel, this Viking Inn, very plain but comfortable. We got up at 8:30 and had another quick continental breakfast. Carol had a bagel with cream cheese and peanut butter, and I had a home-made waffle. Very good. We checked out and headed south to Freeport, Maine, the home of L. L. Bean, Inc. What a major complex. It’s really huge! We wandered all through the place. I certainly never saw as much hunting, camping, and outdoor stuff anywhere in one place in my life. However, there was nothing we couldn’t live without, and we got out of there without spending anything!
Our next stop was in Portland, Maine, to see the lighthouses there. We found the Portland Head Light without too much trouble. It is in the old Fort Williams complex, which guarded Portland, the closest U. S. port to Europe in the old days. Very interesting. The lighthouse was operating, and we got some good photos. Then, after stopping for a few minutes in the gift shop, we headed for the other two lighthouses, which were a few miles south, and close to each other. However, when we got close, we found no good spot for photos, so Carol snapped a couple shots of one of them and we headed out of town. We got back on I-95 South, the Maine Turnpike, and stopped about 3:00 p.m. for gas and some food. We got into Marlborough, Massachusetts around 5:45 p.m., and got checked into the Holiday Inn, which will be our home for the next several days while Carol is at her National Guild of Hypnotists convention. After a quick drive by the convention hotel, about a mile away, and a stop at Quizno’s, we headed back to our room.