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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Day Trip to Maine

July 14, 2010
Wiscasset/Freeport, ME

Today was supposed to be a rainy day, and the weather delivered - in Massachusetts. Us, we headed to Maine and most of the rain passed to our South. Niiicce...

Now, there are two ways to look at this. The logical approach would be that we wanted to go to L.L. Bean's flagship store in Freeport. I have a pair of their shoes that have completely worn out in just over a year, and they have a "satisfaction guaranteed" business model that we needed to test out. Now, it just happens that Red's Eats, home of Maine's Favorite Lobster Roll is just up the road from Freeport, in Wiscasset, so we might as well stop there for lunch, right? Of course, another way to look at this is that we needed to go to Red's and Freeport was a bonus stop. Hmmm...

No matter how you look at it, we had a nice and successful day. It was generally cloudy but we hit the road before it rained. We got to Red's after the main lunch crush and "only" had to wait about 45 minutes. We met some nice people from D.C. in line (you always meet someone in line at Red's). We brought the pups and they had a good day being with us. L.L. Bean gave me full credit for the old shoes toward a new (supposedly better) pair. And, we found the world's largest boot. Now, does it get any better than that?




And, we "collected" another Albertville fire hydrant...



We got home late in the day and still full from the lobster rolls (each one has "more than one lobster's meat" - however you measure that). We snacked and watched a little TV, and now we'll call it an early night. Big day tomorrow - but more on that later...

2 comments:

Unknown said...

So you are on the road to the world's largest are you?

George said...

Only following in the footsteps of the Master, Sensei...