We’re back in Maine, and we brought along our colleague and friend, Brianna. Brianna had never been to the Northeast before, and our showing around our friend Jacob back in 2016 had been a fun time, so we decided to try again.

We headed out Saturday morning, and after an uneventful ten hours or so, we ended up in Middlebury, Vermont. Mer and I graduated from Middlebury College back in The Day, and we love Vermont, so we thought that it was a good place to show Brianna. We ate on a restaurant patio next to Otter Creek, and then spent a happy, if somewhat humid, two sunset hours touring the college campus and a little bit of the town.

We spent the night in Rutland (forty-five minutes south of Middlebury), and decided to head toward southern Maine, so we planned on crossing over Quechee Gorge, the deepest gorge in Vermont. We managed to do so, but we had to take a long detour since the main highway was posted as closed. Once we got to the gorge, we hiked the trails there for about an hour, which was another fun and humid time.

On to Maine – we were delayed a bit by traffic and a self-imposed detour in New Hampshire to get around it, so we got to the cute coastal town of Ogunquit around 3:00. We ate a handy lunch/supper combo at a restaurant that had some views of the ocean, and then we walked along the Marginal Way, a mile-ish long paved trail along the ocean. The fog was slowly rolling in, which was pretty. It was a good intro to the coast.

We left the coast around 6:30 and got home to Livermore Falls at 8:30. And so, we tour on today, looking for indoor things to do since it is raining all day today.