On the Road with Bill & Barb: August in New England has been amazing!

Well August is quickly coming to an end and so is our trip to the northeast! We definitely picked the right place to be for this month with so many of you being in triple digit degrees. We spent most of the month in 70-80's - one perfect day after another. We even turned the heat pump on a few times in the mornings.

We had a fun time in Bar Harbor (Bah-Hah-ba) although I think we actually liked Boothbay Harbor the best! We did love Main

e and would like to return someday! Acadia National Park was breathtaking and we just took in the view at the top of Cadillac Mountain. Thunder Hole pictured below was wild. There are no words to express the beauty of God's creation. Lobster continued to be on the menu and we took full advantage of every opportunity to have some.

We enjoyed a Lumberman/woman show emceed by Tina Scheer, a former Survivor contestant. She was really a delight and very funny!

From Bar Harbor we stopped one night in Scarborough, Maine and spent the afternoon strolling in Kennebunkport. The towns in New England are so quaint and beautiful along with all the lakes, harbors, bays, rivers, ponds and of course the ocean! From there we camped in Plymouth, Massachusetts and had a week of busy days.

Bill was delighted when the fishing turned out to be great at Sandy Pond - all on old turkey lunchmeat - he caught a 19 inch pike one day but threw it back - too many large teeth! We now have a freezer stocked with fresh blue gill.

Our first trip from Plymouth wa

s Provincetown at the very end of Cape Cod. Another beautiful panorama! On the way back down we drove through Hyann

isport and stopped on the National Seashore.

We took one day and drove to Newport, RI, less than an hour. We walked the Cliff Walk (3 miles) along the coast by the immense mansions.

Since we have been scouting out different places to live we decided maybe these places would do - however Bill likes the one on the bottom (The Breakers) and I like the one on the top (Rosecliff). Guess we'll have to pass since we can't agree!

The next day we drove to Boston and walked the Freedom Trail. We have fallen in love with this city - such history on every corner and once again quaint streets mixed in with big city. Every time we stopped to look at our map someone would stop and ask if they could help! A truly friendly place. Bill became a bit nostalgic seeing some Navy ships and sailors when we went to tour the USS Constitution. The aircraft carrier he was on in the 60's drydocked in Boston once. Providence and Quonset Point RI were once his old stomping grounds. It was a special time of his life and he remembers it fondly. The Red Sox were out of town so we were not able to take in a ball game.

The last day of our New England trip was spent in Plymouth, checking out Plymouth Rock and the MayflowerII. A waterfront festival was going on and the temperature decided to send us off with a humid 94 degrees. I'm going back to Maine!!! Plymouth was a very impressive town and the harbor was one of the prettiest we have seen .

We are off to Virginia on Sunday with a stop in Gettysburg on our way. Our grandson, Jonathan, will be having open heart surgery on August 31 and we ask that you say a little prayer for him and his family.