TRAVEL DAY: OUR LAND, TRESCOTT, MAINE TO PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE.
Day 21 – It was a hot, sweaty night. I kept getting up and turning the A/C up; more cold air, please. The rain started around 2 a.m. complete with thunderstorms & lightning over the Harbor. This morning at 7 a.m. it had just stopped raining. We left at 9:35 a.m. It was 75 degrees and VERY humid. Lots of bugs!
It was more like after 10 a.m. before we really got going. Departing our land takes longer each visit. Rob really had to go slowly backing up the driveway to the road. The trees get bigger and more branches grow each year. Either that or the RV is swelling in size. We stopped on the road to hook the Honda up to the RV & thought we were on our way. At the beginning of the road, when dumping our trash in the bin, a neighbor dropped by the RV for a chat. Wayne Jones & his family live at the end of the road where our land is, which culminates at a two-lane highway that runs along the “Bold Coast”. They are the “guardians” of the road when all of us “people from away” are back at our homes in various States. He was checking in to see what we were up to, and we took the opportunity to find out about last winter & what made the so-called “pirate” boat move from one sunken position to another right in front of our land. He said there was a huge storm surge early this year. It had moved one of the lobster boats which is moored in the Harbor and picked up the mooring block because the tide got too high, causing the boat to drift. It was really something. He also warned us about going west into Machias. He said they got 5 inches of rain last night and some roads were flooded out. Luckily, we are headed straight North. We got gas in Whiting after checking the Gas Buddy app for the best prices, surprised that local prices which had seemed high to us, were not that high compared to others further north.
Eventually, we really hit the road heading North on Route 1 all the way to Presque Isle, Maine. We stopped for lunch at a scenic pull-out with a view of Mount Katahdin in the distance. Traffic was light and we were blessed with newly-paved roads for about ½ the trip. We immediately encountered large amounts of bugs hitting the windshield which turned it into a dragonfly graveyard, unfortunately. Therefore, no pictures. I tried but there were so many splotches all over the windows…….
At Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, north & west of Calais, we were stopped due to road work. There was a Bald Eagle on a pole near a huge nest which definitely had something in it. No picture. We saw lots of new foundations and new builds going up, from the Lubec area all the way north. We also saw many places that had closed & restaurants still only doing take-out. We began to see Moose warning signs and lots of huge logging trucks whizzing by (through the bug-covered windshield). Yes, we were heading North!
It was a beautiful day, sunny and 75 degrees when we arrived at our campground at 2:15 p.m. Aroostook State Park is one of our favorite Parks. We’ve been here twice before. It’s a small campground with only 30 campsites, yet because of its somewhat remote location, it’s rarely full except on some summer weekends. There are lakes nearby for kayaking and many trails for hiking. This is also Amish country. You can get wonderful baked goods & fresh produce AND take a very scenic drive to get these items. Country roads to ride bikes on. The State Park has its own lake which is great. There are only a few campsites with hook-ups & campsites are not super big for RVs. It’s perfect for us. We will be able to try out our new battery set up since our campsite has no hook-ups. We are not far from the Canadian border – that doesn’t help us now since Canada is closed due to COVID, but on other occasions you can cross over the river to Canada easily.
We have Site #26U and it’s probably the best campsite we’ve had here yet. Private on all sides but one, it has both shade and sun, and there’s plenty of room for the screened tent. After an hour and a half, we were all set up. The girls spread out inside the RV, happy to be stopped (they did not enjoy today’s trip), and we moved to the screened tent.
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