Maine for a day
Sunday, September 18
We use a cellular hotspot for the internet and we thought ours died. We don’t live and die by internet access but it sure is handy when making plans, plus the hotspot is required for downloading books to read on the Kindel’s, ours developed an issue, it had a couple of blinking lights and wouldn’t come on, it’s never done that before and it’s 5 years old so we thought it had died. Well, anyway, the closest AT&T store was about 80 miles away near Portland ME.
Come to figure out the device was fine, it was the charging cord that was bad, giving the device just enough power to turn on the lights but not enough to turn on the gizmo. With that resolved we spent the night south of Bath ME and then toured a couple forts. Getting to Bath was a little stressful, one town is a true tourist trap with street parking on both sides of the road and people walking EVERYWHERE!
After we scoped out the forts we headed back Gorham NH, we would have stayed longer in Maine but sites are expensive and they are predicting a few days of heavy rain, and we felt if we’re going to be stuck inside it’s better to be out in the middle of the White Mountain National Forest than anyplace else. We arrived just as it was starting to rain.
Speaking of things being expensive in Maine, in Gorham we can buy diesel for $4.23 in ME it was over $6 a gallon at this one station we drove by.
We will be going back to Maine once the rain moves out and will make some better plans for the trip to Portland was an unplanned spur on the moment thing, that’s what we do best.
The first fort we stopped at was Fort Popham, a Civil War-era coastal defense fortification at the mouth of the Kennebec River. Check out some of the stone work in the pictures, especially the stone spiral stairways, someone knew what they were doing when they built this fort.
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Across a small bay sat Fort Baldwin, it was built between 1905 and 1912, we only walked to the first 2 batteries, the misquotes were too hungry for us to continue, we were constantly swatting at them the entire walk back to the van, we didn’t notice any until we reached the fort, which was 500 ft up this hill. The trees have grown up so you couldn’t see the water from the fort.
Misquotes, you un-knowing feed them a bucket of your blood and they reward you with a bump and an itch for days afterwords. Why the itch after you’v feed them??????????? They are most inconsiderate creatures!
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