Bag pick up at 6.45 and down to breakfast ready for bus boarding at 7.50... sounds like a Globus Bus tour to me. We gathered in the lobby with our fellow travellers and Michael ushered us onto the bus following the prescribed seating plan. We were introduced to our driver Kevin and went on a quick look see at some of the major sights of Boston that we had seen while out and about yesterday. Out on the road and the first thing that greeted us was Autumn colour. Michael had been warning us not to get our hopes up too high, that it would be what it is and so on and yet there is was, along the side of the road, setting up the expectation that this would be a good tour for fall leaves. We were very optimistic.
Our first stop of the morning was just at a roadside fill station and the only coffee available was STARBUCKS eeewwwwww. That is not coffee, but a pumpkin spiced latte would have to do. The only highlight here was a funny looking moose statue in the car park and Chris posed for a funny photo. Back on the bus for a bit of dozing and collecting US states. We had left Massachusetts, passed right through the minuscule New Hampshire and having a peak at a little "village" called Bath along the way. I don't think the Brits have anything to worry about... the real thing is somewhat more spectacular. We were then en-route to our lunch stop at Portland, a quaint sea port and the second largest township in Maine. Now this gets us thinking that towns in Maine are not very big. But it was quaint. Lots of cute shops and we went for a walk for a bit after our "Five Guys" custom made burger lunch. It was so busy down by the wharf where we were dropped off and picked up because there were three massive cruise ships in port. Felt a bit like a day in Ephesus really.
On the way out of Portland we went to see Kennebec Port and then on to Walker Point. That would be Walker as in George "Walker" Bush. Their summer home is there literally out on a point and when the US flag and the Texas flag are flying you know that George Dubbleya is in residence. So there was the flag and dozens of people staked out along the side of the road, waiting for a glimpse of the Bush family. Felt a bit like paparazzi taking the shots.
Camden was the little township in Maine where we had afternoon tea. I had really wished that we had had internet access so I could check in with a pic for Anne-Marie, because it was nothing like her Camden, although we did find the Creme De la Creme equivalent, called the Crappy Bakery. Don't think it would work as a name in Australia really. A short wander through the streets of Camden and it was back on the bus for our first night at the Bluenose Inn in Bar Harbor. On the way in we heard an educational video on lobster farming, because tonight we would go to a lobster bake for dinner.
There was a brief time in the hotel room and then back on the bus for the short trip to a restaurant called Bar Harbor Lobster Bake. Here we were presented with an entree of steamed Mussels, A whole lobster, with corn, potato, coleslaw and bread and had the entertainment of learning how to master the art of eating a lobster. It was hugely messy, water squirting in all directions and much laughter but we both conquered the lobster and finished off with some blueberry cake and coffee, before heading back to the hotel to blog and bed. What a day!
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