After driving through the night across
Canada, we pulled up to the United States boarder, where we were
rudely awakened by the border patrol who was not at all happy to see
his fellow Americans. He came into the motor home barking orders, and
demanding to know how long we were gone, who we saw, the names of the
people we saw, what was in our ice chests, if we had any citrus
fruit, what kind of work we do, what we were carrying, if we were
bringing anything back from Canada, and if so, who was it for. During
this whole ordeal none of us were looking our best because it was
about 6:30 in the morning, and many of us had been asleep when we
were awakened and hurriedly searched the motor home to find our
passports. So, we all sat up where we had been sleeping, hair awry,
and sleepy eyed while this man asked us question after question and
searched through the fridge and other cabinets for any remotely
suspicious items that may be lurking in the darkness, including any
unexpected stowaways the motor home might be hiding. After executing
a swift role call he promptly spun on his heel, clumped down the step
and marched back across the driveway to his little office. It was
quite a funny experience :)
Around 9:30 we stopped again in
Freeport, Maine to revisit the shops and outlets there.
Everyone
split up and shopped for about 2 and half hours. Wendy and I ended up
having to go back to the motor home and Jeff had given me a key but
when we got there I could not get the door open! Desperate times call for
desperate measures so, with Wendy's help, I squeezed into the tiny
window by the passenger seat and came tumbling into the motor home
head first...
When we finished at the motor home we headed back up
the hill to the shops. There was a neat little ice cream shop that we
saw last time we were in Freeport but we didn't have time to go so we
stopped in this time.
There were so many delicious sounding flavors
and I couldn't settle on just one so I got 3 half scoops of 3
different flavors and Wendy got 2 different flavors. It was well
worth the three dollars :) We thought we were going to meet in front
of L. L. Bean where we met last time, but after we sat there for
about 20 minutes and saw neither hide nor hair of anyone, we figured
we'd better go back to the motor home. By the time we got back down
to where the motor home was parked, Lorrie and Tanya had already
started making lunch.
Jeff had bought some fish from the fish market
the day before we left so the women folk battered and pan-fried it
for lunch on Monday. Fresh fish tastes sooo good!
After lunch Jeff
went back out to shop at Timberland so we sat under the tree right
outside of the motor home and read until it was time to go.
A little way down the road, we stopped
at a big outdoor/sporting goods store called the Kittery Trading Post
in Kittery, Maine to do some more shopping.
After a few minutes of
shopping at the trading post we found a place to dump the tank and
fill up again.
We had to stop at Best Buy to pick up a
converter so Jeff could charge his Tablet with out turning on the
generator.
Lorrie had picked up a little Lego set
with a battery powered motor for the boys. Andrew had the most fun
driving the little remote control car around the motor home all
night.
He had all his lights and stuff set up in the hallway...
We had burritos for dinner.
We thought we were going to be able to
see New York City but we never got close enough... :(
