We did not get to the Pacific this trip so I can’t say… "from the Pacific to the Atlantic", but we did hit the Atlantic yesterday! We left Sugar Hill, New Hampshire under beautiful clear blue skies… Chuck tore me away from the gardens and the green house, and smelling redolently of basil and thyme (Linda was gracious with her gifts of herbs, apples, corn and a big squash …) we headed east. There is no graceful way to drive east from New Hampshire to Maine…. It is a bunch of small roads or you drive south to Boston on I93 and then go up on I95. We drove through lovely little towns and suddenly, like a clear bump! Hit the water! It’s the Atlantic! Maine has a rugged, raggedy coast that we just drove north along and on the familiar old US1 which stretches from the Keys to Maine… We stopped yesterday in Camden, Maine which has a lovely harbor and visited for dinner with cousins who were spending a week here from Hartford. We realized we had been to Camden on that wonderful motorcycle trip 5 years ago when Kenneth and Barbara celebrated their 50th and we drove up from Miami to celebrate it with them. At that time, on a whim… "while we’re at it… while we’re here"  we drove up to Maine. Hard to believe that was 5 years ago. Chuck has been talking to bikers all the way up, and now this morning, while the rain gently falls, he said, "I remember what it was like to ride the bike in the rain" (not pretty, dangerous, not romantic). "Wait a few days and it will clear", the Mainies say. Folks from Maine (I call them Mainies) have lived independent and tough for a long time. Look at the state on the map. They have fought off the British and the French and Indians… The state pokes up into Canada and it fights constantly the Atlantic which made its coast so craggy. There, look, the rain stopped. We will walk around Camden and then head north into SW Harbor to stay with "old" friends Dave and Moira who have visited us on Big Pine Key. Tre trip is winding down, but not yet. We still might catch some "leaves" in Boone, NC. God bless you.
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