We drove to “Waldo” (our nickname due to the red and white striped paint) Lighthouse in Lubec, ME, which is the furthest east point of the United States then we drove to a shoreline with a decrepit boathouse and took a picture of a lighthouse on the Canadian side. We crossed the border bridge after showing our passports to visit Campobello International Park where FDR had a summer home with his wife, Eleanor. FDR spent time growing up every summer there too. Next, we visited the Campobello Library and Museum in Brunswick, Canada. Then we went back to Searsport and had dinner at Anglers Restaurant: my husband had a burger, fries, and chocolate pudding pie and I had buffalo chicken salad with their homemade garlic dill dressing and strawberry shortcake for dessert. We arrived at our boathouse after dinner and sat in the lawn chairs by the sea while bird watching. At times, we closed our eyes listening to the waves hitting the rocks, and hoped to see the eagles again but they did not fly by this time. We played Uno while watching a movie to wrap up our evening.

Getting up at 6:30 am, we spent time relaxing in the morning at the boathouse, and then we headed to Dunkin’s Donuts and I tried their blueberry coffee paired with a blueberry crème crumble donut and both were delicious! Wanting to check out more of the local area, we went to the Searsport public pier and walked around a bit, stopped in an antique store and hit another shop, which was a junk an old stuff store in a couple’s residential home. Nearby, we visited the Penobscot Marine Museum site (buildings, houses, a boathouse, and a church, oh, a giant camera, and sails-boat sails too. Not too far of a drive, still in town, we visited the Carver Public Library and talked with the friendly staff, who shared that they want to expand the library. As we both loved books, we decided to stop at a used (50,000 books) bookstore, again at a residential property. We had to knock on the door of the house for the owner to open up the store, he did. His books were very organized, but there was a strong musty smell; some of the books were too moldy to be on the shelves. It was still cool to see all of those old books.

At this point, we were hungry for lunch, so we decided to eat at a restaurant in Northport recommended to us by the librarians we met earlier. The Hoot is a farm-to-table restaurant; they source their food from local family farms. Located by a creek, we enjoyed hearing the water run as we sat outside and ordered a local farm’s beef burgers with fries and a salad. Their freshly served lemonade was good too! Onward, we took a short drive to Belfast and walked around the different downtown shops; we stopped for iced dirty chai’s at Chase’s Daily; the owners shared their interesting story on the business website. We noticed several locals shopping and enjoying the town; they were happy to talk with us and most complimentary of the stores. We headed back to Searsport and stopped at their bookstore; we picked up some water for coffee to get us through the night and morning. We returned to our boathouse and relaxed with our view outside in the chaise lounge chairs, walked the beach, talked with a host and took some selfies. Our friendly host told us about the Homeport Inn & Tavern, so we spontaneously went there for dinner and we each ordered an excellent 8 oz. ribeye baseball cut with garlic mashed potatoes and a squash veggie medley. Ginger ale was our beverage of choice, which was most complimentary to the meal. After dinner, we wanted to relax again by the water near our boathouse. We noticed the prior morning that the ship, which had parked near us on the water all week, had left, but the ship had returned-it was back when we got home.

Our last morning in Maine, we took some photographic shots from our boathouse in Searsport before getting ready to fly back to our Ohio home. To Bangor we drove to catch our flight. Maine, we love you & hope to return, again & again!