“...many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (from Daniel 12:4)
On Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., Mary Ann and I arrived home from spending a couple of days at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. What a great place!
Tuesday, August 28 was our 25th wedding anniversary. We’d have liked to do a “big” trip such as our 2002 trip to Alaska which was in honor of our 20th anniversary, but financial and time constraints meant we could only “do” 3 days and 2 nights and no more than a few hours from Framingham. Boothbay Harbor, Maine “fit the bill” nicely.
We stayed at the Mid-Town Motel which promotes itself as “a true 1950s classic”. That it is. It’s like going back in time to 1955, except that they have modern portable color television sets and cable. For those who like air conditioning, there is no air conditioning. The last time we stayed at a motel with no air conditioning was at a motel on Cape Cod in 2002- before that it was at a New Hampshire motel in 1982. No “a/c” is quite rare today. In looking at the travel brochures for Boothbay Harbor, only one or two other places have no a/c. It WAS kind of warm for Sunday night, but there was a fan and it was NOT unbearable. The temperature and the humidity dropped quite a bit for Monday and Tuesday and so we were pretty comfortable. While the Mid-Town Motel has no “a/c” the owner, Mr. Lewis, could not have been a more pleasant and gracious host. He’s a very friendly 70-ish guy. The rooms are all very clean and very well maintained. We ate several meals at a downtown restaurant called “Ebb Tide”. It’s sort of a “hole in the wall” with reasonable prices and great food. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt, and Robert Duvall were among the celebrities listed as having eaten there.
I’d been to Maine several times before but never to the “Boothbay Region”. As the crow flies, it’s about 25 miles northeast of downtown Portland, but by actual driving, which is certainly NOT “as the crow flies” it’s about a 45 mile trip from downtown Portland. You go through Brunswick, then Bath, then Woolwich, then Wiscasset, Edgecomb, Boothbay, and Boothbay Harbor. Much of the area is very woodsy. The harbor itself is very beautiful and there’s a wooden footbridge from one side of the harbor to the other which we walked a few times. We took a harbor cruise on Monday which was a blast....there are loads of beautiful islands and we saw some seals. Early Monday morning, we took a drive one hour northeast of Boothbay Harbor to Pemaquid Point and visited Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. (That’s the lighthouse on the 2003 State of Maine Quarter.) We actually got to go INSIDE the lighthouse and climb to the top! On Monday night, Mary Ann took several sunset photos at Boothbay Harbor.
Tuesday, we stopped at Cape Elizabeth (just southwest of Portland) on our way home. I’d been there several times. Cape Elizabeth is a very ritzy suburb of Portland and is also a popular vacation community for mostly wealthy people...sort of like Chatham, MA on Cape Cod. Fort Williams Park and Portland Head Light are always worth seeing and it was fun to stop there.
The mini-vacation was TOO short. It’s been tough to get home and I’ve had so much work to do that to use my famous expression, “I’ve been running around like a nut!” Even so, it was a great trip to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and I would definitely go there again!
On Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., Mary Ann and I arrived home from spending a couple of days at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. What a great place!
Tuesday, August 28 was our 25th wedding anniversary. We’d have liked to do a “big” trip such as our 2002 trip to Alaska which was in honor of our 20th anniversary, but financial and time constraints meant we could only “do” 3 days and 2 nights and no more than a few hours from Framingham. Boothbay Harbor, Maine “fit the bill” nicely.
We stayed at the Mid-Town Motel which promotes itself as “a true 1950s classic”. That it is. It’s like going back in time to 1955, except that they have modern portable color television sets and cable. For those who like air conditioning, there is no air conditioning. The last time we stayed at a motel with no air conditioning was at a motel on Cape Cod in 2002- before that it was at a New Hampshire motel in 1982. No “a/c” is quite rare today. In looking at the travel brochures for Boothbay Harbor, only one or two other places have no a/c. It WAS kind of warm for Sunday night, but there was a fan and it was NOT unbearable. The temperature and the humidity dropped quite a bit for Monday and Tuesday and so we were pretty comfortable. While the Mid-Town Motel has no “a/c” the owner, Mr. Lewis, could not have been a more pleasant and gracious host. He’s a very friendly 70-ish guy. The rooms are all very clean and very well maintained. We ate several meals at a downtown restaurant called “Ebb Tide”. It’s sort of a “hole in the wall” with reasonable prices and great food. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt, and Robert Duvall were among the celebrities listed as having eaten there.
I’d been to Maine several times before but never to the “Boothbay Region”. As the crow flies, it’s about 25 miles northeast of downtown Portland, but by actual driving, which is certainly NOT “as the crow flies” it’s about a 45 mile trip from downtown Portland. You go through Brunswick, then Bath, then Woolwich, then Wiscasset, Edgecomb, Boothbay, and Boothbay Harbor. Much of the area is very woodsy. The harbor itself is very beautiful and there’s a wooden footbridge from one side of the harbor to the other which we walked a few times. We took a harbor cruise on Monday which was a blast....there are loads of beautiful islands and we saw some seals. Early Monday morning, we took a drive one hour northeast of Boothbay Harbor to Pemaquid Point and visited Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. (That’s the lighthouse on the 2003 State of Maine Quarter.) We actually got to go INSIDE the lighthouse and climb to the top! On Monday night, Mary Ann took several sunset photos at Boothbay Harbor.
Tuesday, we stopped at Cape Elizabeth (just southwest of Portland) on our way home. I’d been there several times. Cape Elizabeth is a very ritzy suburb of Portland and is also a popular vacation community for mostly wealthy people...sort of like Chatham, MA on Cape Cod. Fort Williams Park and Portland Head Light are always worth seeing and it was fun to stop there.
The mini-vacation was TOO short. It’s been tough to get home and I’ve had so much work to do that to use my famous expression, “I’ve been running around like a nut!” Even so, it was a great trip to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and I would definitely go there again!
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