David picked the hotel tonight another Best Western, apparently they asked if we minded a small room, to which he said OK! When we arrived it was at the back of a truck stop, lots of rigs parked and a truck stop restaurant. The Hotel was at the back and did look onto trails and did sit on several acres of land. Not exactly what we had envisioned, for some reason they had not taken pictures of the truck stop!!!! When we got to the room it was located at the end of the building, under a set of stairs and the smallest room I have ever seen. We had to step over Sammy to get to the bed. I immediately named the room "The Harry Potter Room". After a while of resting in there and checking email, we noticed it was getting hotter and hotter, and when we checked the air conditioner we found it was not working. The Gods were on our side, after calling the front desk and them sending someone we are now sitting in a room that is three times as big and cool, cool, cool.
We went to the truck stop tonight for dinner and David ordered ribs and I ordered scallops. We were going to order seafood but everything was deep fried. When my scallops arrived they were sweet, yes very sweet, like sugary sweet. After calling our very jolly, and loud waitress over, she told me they were cooked in honey, I said I had not ordered the sweet ones (saw them on the menu that were cooked in maple syrup). Well she said the ones that I had ordered were the ones off the special and she should have told me that they were done in honey, anyway to make a long story short, she sent them back and brought me grilled ones. They were sitting in about an inch of butter but by then I was just glad to have something to eat. No wonder everyone is over 300lbs here in this country. Also, each meal comes with 3 side orders, so we ended up with tons of food on the table. Also, did I mention apparently on a Sunday in Maine, you cannot get alcohol!!!!! Hmmmm!!!!!! We had seen signs for liquor stores advertised along the route from Massachusetts and everyone pulling off, we just thought they were alcoholics. But it turns out they knew there was no beer in the next State, I think they should have added that fact to the signs.
When we left the restaurant today we went to the store, it appears that Dysart's owns half the town, the restaurant, the truck repair, the store, the gas station and truck delivery. The store had everything you needed for if you owned a big rig. A fridge you plug into your cigarette lighter, CB's, plug in heated mugs to name a few. The one thing that stood out was a kit to break into a car, yes an actual car intruder kit. Now I am sure they sell them thinking you have locked your keys out of your car but what if you are just car jacking someone elses. Well there is a kit for you sitting in the store in Bangor, Maine.
Tomorrow night we are going just down the highway to Bar Harbor. This time I picked the hotel and we have a room with a balcony over looking the Atlantic ocean, which we have been referring to as our ocean all day. Who knows though it could be a plastic swimming pool, I am beginning to not trust the pictures that go with the hotels. Hope all are well back home, have managed to catch up with most of you either via phone, skype or email.
Below are a few pictures taken today.
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| Atlantic Ocean |
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| Downtown Boston |
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| Sowa Artist`s Market |
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| Keeping Cool |
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