Last night was hot!
Hard to sleep when you’re tossing and turning, and listening to snores from the other side of the bed…
Managed, however, to get a few winks in before the revelry of a new day…
Decided last night to take a trip up to Freeport to check out what I had believed to be one of the most revered sailing ports of the world…
I was wrong… (You heard it here first, folks!)
I figure I mixed up Freeport, Maine, with Fremantle, Australia…
You cannot begin to imagine how much that bit of knowledge set me back… Here I was…
All set to bask in the lore of the America’s Cup (for you non-nautical elements of my Blog, that‘s the epitome of all things sacred to us rag-pushers), and what do we find?
Well…
We find the headquarters of L.L. Bean (the famous - at least here in America - retailer of all quality “outdoors” things… On par with “Cabela‘s” I believe)…
Of course, Lu and I strolled through the enormous complex, and (lucky me) I found a smashing nice, nautical top for my girl, which she dearly loves…
There are a hundred (well, maybe not that many) boutiques, shops and art galleries clustered around “down town,” but, you know what, we’ve been there and done that, and since we hadn’t found the marina yet, we opted to forego trekking stuffy shops, and headed for what I hoped was the crown jewels of Freeport…
Ended up driving at least five miles up and around neighborhoods (mighty fine ones, some of them) before finally getting down to the marina and harbor.
The harbor was packed with vessels of every sort and size, but it was a “working” place with one lousy café tucked away in a corner, and no boutiques, shops, or docks to browse… Good for me, bad for Luanne…
I was disappointed, I admit, but what can you do?
We headed South…
Ended up in Portland… Walked “Old Town” again, and found the “Dry Dock” restaurant and tavern, which served us cold beer and wonderful fish and chips:
The Haddock sandwich is very good… Our waitress suggested we add cheese, and that turned out to be a winning combination! Who would’ve thunk to eat fish with cheese?
Back home, we relaxed for a while, then headed down to the beach for a stroll…
It’s simply incredible to have this wonderful weather every day, but I just heard on the weather forecast that things are about to change… Time to move South!
That’s it for now….. Take care, and keep in touch.
Pictures of today's outing...
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