With Acadia National Park in our rear view mirror, we stopped at a campground ~15 miles from Bar Harbor. We stayed there for a couple of days catching up on cleaning, laundry, etc. Here is the view from our campsite, so you can see why we didn't mind a couple of days catching up.
We continued on towards Boston, stopping in Freeport, ME to visit LL Bean which is open 24/7 for 365 days/year. According to them, they get 3 million visitors a year. We are not ones for shopping, but the experience is pretty fun. Once leaving Freeport, we stopped in Wiscasset, ME for lunch at Red's Eats, a place that was written up in all of the New England visitor's book. The unique thing about Red's Eats is that it is a tiny place with no place to sit down inside, yet the people line up down the sidewalk to place an order for their favorite. The food we had was fantastic, the lobster roll, (which was already de-shelled so I didn't have to wrestle with it), was declared by several publications (USA Today, Trip Adviser, Maine Lobstermen, and some others I can't recall right now), as the best lobster roll in the state of Maine.
Something else we got at Red's was a home made whoopie pie. At first I only got one just to try it, but I was back within five minutes to get another one.
Thursday, October 8
We parked our rv at the furthest train station out on the northeast side of Boston and took the train in to walk the Freedom Trail. This was a very enjoyable activity that brought back to life the historical events that took place and some of the places that were included. You walk the 2.6 mile long Freedom Trail by following bricks laid in the sidewalk, then when you get to one of the stops, there is a bronze marker embedded in the concrete.
Below is the Massachusetts State House that was completed in January 1798 at a cost of $133,333. The land was originally owned by John Hancock, the first elected governor of Massachusetts. It is now the seat of the Massachusetts state government.
the cemetery where Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and the five victims in the Boston Massacre were buried
Boston's oldest surviving public building, the Old State House, was built in 1713. The balcony was where the Declaration of Independence was read to the people who gathered in July 1776.
Below is the Old North Church which is Boston's oldest church building. The steeple is where two lanterns were hung on April 18, 1775 to signal the beginning of Paul Revere's ride, the action regarded as the spark that ignited the American Revolution.
Paul Revere was not only a patriot, he was an expert silversmith, copper manufacturer, part time dentist, engraver, foundry owner for bells and canons, and the father of sixteen children; 8 to his first wife and, after she died, he had 8 more with his second wife.
There is a monument for the Battle of Bunker Hill where "don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!" became the famous battle cry.
OBSERVATION:
I had a preconceive notion that Bostonian's could be rude, arrogant, and impatient. While that may be true of some, our experience was that people would go out of their way to help when they saw people looking at a map or an information board. My apologies to the Bostonian's. But they still talk funny.
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