We drove through rural Maine past typical New England clapperboard houses seasonally decorated with pumpkins and some with pumpkin people, basically Guys with pumpkin heads. It is also election season here so most lawns are studded with small boards in support of candidates and issues in national and local elections. Maine seemed more pro Obama than this area where Romney is more popular judging by a rough front lawn and bumper sticker count. Our first drive thr...

The drive north along the Maine coast gave our aching calves a rest. A beautiful bright blue sky made the sea sapphire blue, but we bypassed the southern beaches and Kennebunkport where the Kennedys and Bushes have homes and stopped off at Cape Elizabeth where there are 2 typical lighthouses, one of them Portland Head was the first on the coast built by Washington in 1790 and still working. Also home to the renowned Two Lights Lobster Shack, supposedly the best p...