Well it was time to save and publish another few days of blogs so if you have not been following on your own you might want to resume from Day 18 posted a few days ago.
Alarm went off at 7.45am and I headed straight to the window and I saw clouds with what appeared to be a resemblance of blue sky as well. Yippee. We did most of the packing last night and we had minimal breakfast supplies in the room to save some time (the delicious OJ we had bought at Newport with a Yoghurt I grabbed from breakfast yesterday).
I was a bit freaked out last night when I was unable to upload any photos to my blog as without images its just a ramble. But I tried again this morning and all is good again.
As we are not scheduled to arrive in Portland until late this afternoon wed planned on doing a Portland city tour for tomorrow morning but both operators I had been monitoring only had 1 seat left so we decided to book a trolley tour for today in the seaside village called Kennebunkport which
is on our way to Portland in lieu. We have seen this town on YouTube live webcams we have been watching for the last 3 years whilst planning this trip.
We set off by 9am and the plan was to get to the northern side of Boston without tolls and avoid the renowned city congestion and we got lucky with an easy passage across the city and soon after we decided to track down a diner for late breakfast / brunch. We had our usual google maps route set up on the car entertainment display using Apple Car Play so we tried to find a restaurant by simply adding a stop on the route and google offered 5 suggestions. We ignore the first one and the second option came up with Nick and Andys Breakfast & Lunch. Who could not refuse a name like that so we added the stop and google instructed us to take the next exit.
What we did not realise however was that google maps then made us go straight back on the i95 southbound (essentially a and drive for 7 km to a town called Danvers (we had
not considered the diner might be actually behind us on the route !) Not a problem as it was nice diner. Kerry had 2 slices of texas french toast with extra blueberries and I had 2 eggs (over easy this time) with bacon hash, it was delicious. There was a waitress here called Donna and Kerry was adamant that she sounded just like Buddys sister on the TV show Cake Boss.
Wed left the diner around 10.30am and within 30 minutes we had crossed the border into the state of New Hampshire and ticked off our 48th state visited and state # 8 on this trip (only 2 more to go !). I had stopped for gas a town called Seabrook and the gas pump wanted my 5 digit zip code which I dont have (our post codes are only 4 digits in the land of oz) so the attendant just helped me out by allowing the pump to be activated and for the first time it let me fill up the tank and with the price being $3.29 per gallon it was around the cheapest we have seen. Every time I have used my
Qantas Travel Money card at the bowser it seems to turn off automatically after around 4 gallons (around US
The drive today has been pretty amazing with lots of vibrant fall colours of yellow and orange and the peak foliage is yet We would soon cross the state border into Maine at a place called Kittery. Where we stopped at the centre for a quick break. This is our 49th state visited and state # 9 on this trip (only 1 more to go now being Vermont !). We then drove along highway 1 the coast road and passed through quite a few seaside towns which had lots of hotels so this must be a popular spot in the summer time and saw a quaint town called Ogunquit and we arrived in Kennebunkport around 15 minutes before our 1.00pm trolly tour was due to depart. It was a bit of challenge to find car parking here as there were tourists everywhere but we managed to get on board just in time.
