Summer in New England - Roadtrip 2012 - Day 8

Today we woke up with an amazing view of the sea from our tent at Recompence Shore Campground near Freeport, Maine. We hung around camp for a little longer than usual because we weren't going as far and because we were waiting for Purl Diva, a yarn shop in Brunswick, to open at 11:00 am. We made our usual Starbucks breakfast-time run before heading to Brunswick, where Katy picked up some yarn and she talked me into buying a drop spindle kit so I can learn to spin yarn for her. We went through Portland, Maine next, which turned out to be larger than we thought, with a metro population over a million. They had a large downtown that we drove through and found a parking place so Katy could go into Knit Wit, a local yarn shop there. Katy bought some needles that she didn't have and we went to go get lunch at a place on the outskirts of Portland called "Anania's, Your Neighborhood Store." We got a gigantic turkey wrap to share and each got a homemade Maine "Whoopie pie," which is a cookie/brownie/cake substance with cream sandwiched in the middle. We bought our lunch and took it out to Fort Williams Park, home of the Portland Head Lighthouse. We sat out in the park at a picnic table and ate our lunch before heading out to take some pictures of the lighthouse itself, built in the 1790s, and the surrounding seascape. Our next adventure was to try to take a walk on Old Orchard Beach, consistently voted the best public beach in southern Maine. It was very difficult to find a parking spot, but eventually we did and we got to go stick our feet into the ocean and walk along the beach. Afterwards, we took a short drive to Biddeford, Maine where we dropped off our stuff at the hotel and went out for some local seafood at the Seafood Center, just north of Kennebunk, Maine. We got our first taste of a lobster roll and got to eat at a restaurant that was brimming with local Maine culture. It was a fantastic day and we got to spend the night in a very nice hotel to cap things off. Looking forward to heading south tomorrow for the first time in a while! Here's our pictures!