Back in Vermont

Our travels have brought us back to Springfield Vermont.  We are "driveway surfing" at a friends property where we stopped on the way to Maine.  They have moved onto Florida for work.  The area is beautiful.  From our previous posts this is where we went 4 wheeling and first saw the Maple tap lines on the trees.

Sam and Coffee are having great fun running around the 12 acres here smelling all they can get their little noses on.  Tom has even started walking the Kona recently.

We are enjoying some solitude and I am catching up on reading.  We're not sure what our plan is from here other than head toward Michigan and visit the upper peninsula.

We are taking some photos and plan on heading to the Adirondack Mountains for a day trip soon.  We'll post some photos when we have free wi - fi someplace.  Using our card eats up precious mega bytes we pay for by the month.

More to come...thanks for coming along on our ride.

GO WEST...

Leaving Lubec this morning and heading West since we can't go any 

further East and remain in the US.  Back on US telephone and WI- FI.  Feeling the balmy temps we have not had to deal with in the far eastern region.  

Our time in Maine is coming to an end. We had a great 6 weeks here.  Experiencing the local towns, photographing the birds and having our share of lobsters.  Unfortunately our boat trip to see the Puffins, mentioned in a previous post, was cancelled due to rough seas.  Sunday and Monday we had 30 MPH winds.  We were very disappointed and had stayed the extra week here waiting for our trip.  There were no cancellations in the foreseeable future so we packed up our toys and left as scheduled.  

We did pick up a few more lobsters yesterday for $2.80 per pound (crazy) and spent the afternoon cooking and freezing some for our later enjoyment.  Now on the 95 West heading to Vermont to squat for a while and see where the road takes us from there.  

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Hiking the Eastern Most Trail

This is the lighthouse where the hike starts.  West Quoddy Lighthouse 

Walking through the trails was beautiful and so peaceful.  There was spongy moss lining the trail
with ferns and flowers mixed in.

The trail moved up and down the shore line and to help with erosion they placed logs  along the  walkway.

At the top of the hill I came upon this beautiful view.  On top of these rock previous hikers had balanced rocks in different configurations.  To view all of these little granite stacks made for a very Zen moment. 

Here Sam is contemplating the climb up.  We were around 75 steps by now.

Another view from the top.  I am grateful for being able to hike this trail.  

The View from our Front Door

This is Sunset out our front door.

Our front yard for the time being. 

Out the back after a brief rain.  I think we're in Paradise.

The West Quoddy lighthouse.  The land mass in the distance is Canada on the Bay of Fundy.

Hummingbirds

Our Hummingbird friend.  This little guy came to the coach to feed on the little feeders we hang from the rear view mirror.  Tom got some great shots.  

Sandpiper posing for us.

The Maine Stay

Our stay in Maine will be coming to an end on Tuesday but not without a grand finale'.  On Monday we will be going out on a boat to Michias Seal Island off the coast of Maine to watch Puffins.  Yes those cute little birds which are the Parrots of the Atlantic Ocean.

Being here in Maine has been a wonderful experience.  We have relaxed, been sightseeing and I found a walking trail which was spectacular.  I'll post some pictures of that next.  

This is the East Quoddy lighthouse on Campobello Island, New Brunswick Canada.  The lighthouse is accessible at low tide only.  If you hike to it when the tide is out and you wait too long you'll be stuck there for 6-8 hours until the tide goes back out.  

FDR bridge.  The other side is Canada.

The same bridge from farther away.

We traveled to Campobello Island which was the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt before he was President and during his terms in office.  Although he only visited a handful of times.  The island is small and only has about 1000 residents, there is one food store and 2 restaurants.

The View to Canada....

Our location has changed as we moved East from Bar Harbor Maine to Lubec Maine. Which if you're a local is called "Down East".   Not much going on in Lubec Maine but that's okay we like it that way.  We have landed as far east as one can go and still be in the US.  The campground we are in sits about 3 or 4 miles from the Canadian border, so we'll be taking some trips there.  

Since the last post we explored around the Bar Harbor area some more and went for a few day trips to see the sights.  We met some great people at the campground we were in and spent some evenings hanging out with them.   All in all a nice place to be.  But all good things must come to an end. 

Our phone service is iffy right now since we are so close to Canada we are picking up Canadian towers mostly.  But there are a few spots, standing with foil on my head and my arm in the air,  I can get AT&T.  But I look completely ridiculous like the other campers walking around trying to find the signal also.   Don't want those roaming charges so the phones are being shut off mostly.   

The following pictures are from my phone out the front window.  I found a signal for a second.  Better pictures will be coming once we get kicked into gear and get the cameras set up.   We'll be here a little over 2 weeks since Tom and I got a chance to go out to another island and view Puffins from a blind.  If you haven't had your fill of these little guys you will by the time we post more pictures of them.  We go out July 23rd.  We've been on a waiting list for 3 weeks and they called yesterday.  This is very cool because not many people get to do this.

This is the view out our front window of the coach  Bay of Fundy

The tide is moving out now.