Today threatened (and delivered) some rain, but that didn't stop us one bit. We started the day looking to drop off a guest who had been hitchhiking with us for 3000 miles - a Geocaching Travelbug we picked up in Chico before we left. The little guy, Dee Dee le Cafard by his owner (a French geocacher), was found north of town in a cache with other Bugs looking to be carried along on their journeys. Dee Dee's stated goal was to reach Montreal, so we got him as cl...

Having finally arrived in Maine the previous day, we arrived now at one of its northernmost points. Calais (pronounced like callous on your foot) lies right on the Canadian border and Michael was constantly fearful of accidentally making a wrong turn toward the border checkpoint. On our first full day there, our hosts the Morris family took us out to West Quoddy Head, the easternmost point of land in all the United States, to see its lighthouse and catch a glimps...

Capital, Ben and Jerry's Factory, Cabot Cheese Factory Outlet, Smuggler's Notch Distillery Outlet, Champlain Chocolatier Outlet, Morse Maple Syrup Farm, The Moose!!!, Huge telephone Needless to say today was exceptionally busy. We started our day off heading the toward the Vermont State Capital but after realizing we were parked right next to the visitor's center we stopped in there first to see what they had to offer. Upon entering we were immediately greeted b...

This was something of a last minute stop, decided the day before we left the Boston area. While enroute back to camp one evening we saw the offramp for Lowell and Michael had to stop to see the place. Lowell was one of America's first industrial cities, designed and built solely for the purpose of housing workers and supporting what came to be over a dozen different textile mills along canals tapping into water power from nearby rivers to drive the machinery. Whe...

By this point in the trip, Michael was pretty used to maneuvering the trailer into city centers for capital visitation, but something said Boston was NOT going to be forgiving, and boy was that the case. After fighting for some time to find parking near Beacon Hill and Boston Common, we finally made it to the Bullfinch-designed capitol building. Although our guts have usually led us to opting for a self-guided option whenever possible, we saw there was a plethora...