Today I went out to South Portland. This includes some very fancy suburban areas. Most notably is the Portland heads lighthouse. Regularly when some ad here wants to show they are including all of America they will start with the golden gate bridge then include a corn field then the Portland lighthouse. (currently both the US Army and marines have exactly this ad for their recruitment at the moment). This area of the coast is very attractive. As this is the most northern (mostly) ice free harbor in the eastern USA it has a whole lot of old military bases, basically they went over 150 years assuming that someone was going to sail in hear (it only happened once and for some reason they have issues with their town being burned down by the royal navy at one point). This however adds to the things to see in around the coast. All in all today was the hottest day on my trip to day well into the mid-30’s and humid as hell, so this was more than a little bit draining. I know the issue of complaining about the heat in Maine when I will be in Arizona in a few days, oh well I will have to cope, I see good old Wellington has a high of 17 today, so you all enjoy that…..
In the morning I have my biggest travel day without going from one country to another, I have to take a train to Boston, then two subway rides, then a plan half way across the country and then a shuttle about 30 km into Boulder, bugger of a day but oh well has to happen.
You're freaking me out - I saw the lighthouse photo and thought it looked familiar - had to go back through my photos to be sure. Was momentarily confused as our photos are from the other side so they looked mirror-reversed! I'd forgotten that we'd got as far as Portland, but didn't go into town - just did some walks around Casco Bay. Lovely area - but when we were there it was as cold as hell.
ReplyDeleteHope the trip to Boulder wasn't too dire.