TRIP #4 PUT ON HOLD FOR NOW.
Day 46 – Gorgeous day at 6 a.m., sunny, 55 degrees. We are leaving northern Maine this morning, heading for home. It will take several days to get home, then Rob will be flying out to CA to visit his mom. Depending on how things go, we will continue this trip in a few weeks & will start up the Blog again at that time. This is the last day of trip #4’s Blog, for now.
272 miles (5:50), 29763-30035
And here’s some “shout-outs” for the near future………….
July 14: BEST WISHES, DAVID & JESSICA! WE HOPE YOUR WEDDING DAY IS PERFECT.
July 26: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GAIL! WE LOVE YOU. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.
Aroostook State Park: 87 State Park Road, Presque Isle, ME 04769, (207) 768-8341, www.maine.gov/aroostook for website; www.campwithme.com for reservations. Check-in 1 p.m. & check-out 11 a.m. Small campground with 30 campsites, most of them are small sites and close together. Site #3U is the best campsite, followed by 23M and 26U. Because there isn’t much room between sites, the campground is fairly noisy if not almost empty, but quite pleasant mid-week. Lots of hiking trails, a lake for canoeing & kayaking, and near to a decent-sized city, Presque Isle. The campground is clean & well-maintained. The rangers & campground hosts are friendly & helpful. No hook-ups. No dump station. Mostly tent campers. No electricity, generators allowed during certain hours. Water is available at the restrooms. We would stay here again, but probably not for a long stay because there’s no dump station & it can be noisy. It is, however, in a beautiful, remote area of Maine, so we will be back again.
We left at 9:05 a.m., 64 degrees, sunny & breezy. Route 1 south to Houlton, then I-95 south to Freeport, ME and back to Wolfe Neck Farm Recompense Shore Campground for one night.
We arrived at 2:55 p.m. with restroom stops & lunch at a rest stop. (74 degrees, partly cloudy, breezy.) They gave us site # 924 (the Park was fairly crowded) and we loved our campsite. By a large field with the Ocean and some campsites on that side of the field, we had sheep to the south east of us, BAAAH and a large herd of cows north east of us, MOOO. In between, directly east of us we had one of the huge vegetable gardens with the crops lined up in rows. Buccolic.
After phone calls to CA, we went in to Freeport to the Maine Brewing Company to check to see if they had Rob’s beer, Mean Old Tom, in stock. They did, and we picked some up. Went to the Harrasseekit Inn Broad Arrow Tavern for dinner (we always come here for the Lobster Stew). We share a bowl of that, split the Artichoke Spinach Dip and were full when our pizza (Wild Mushroom Pizza) arrived. We each had a slice, then took it back to the RV for tomorrow’s dinner. The high today was 80 degrees. More phone calls & texts, a good night’s sleep, and we should make it to Massachusetts for tomorrow night’s campground.
Thank you for reading!!! We hope to be back on the road again soon.