Moving up the East Coast!!

On June 8th we drove to Mystic, Connecticut....one of my better navigation days!!!!   Our friend Bill had plotted out on our map to make a big swoop around the cities of Baltimore and New York (avoiding low tunnels etc )going through Pennsylvania....this looked way out of the way and looking at the map I said oh we can go right up I-95 through New Jersey not realizing that this would take us over the George Washington Bridge through I think the Bronx!!!   Besides the fact that the bridge was very old, with narrow lanes and trucks all around us with inches to spare according to my driver the toll was $18.....Art was not impressed with my decision!!!

 The next day we toured the Submarine museum and the first nuclear submarine the Nautilus and then saw the Mystic Seaport in the afternoon.  Both being very interesting and educational....the historical seaport actually has an active shipyard working on restoring an 80 yr old ship.  There is also a fleet of small sailboats maintained for classes.

June 10th we drove to Plymouth, Massachusetts....couldn't touch the rock it was surrounded by an iron fence with a roof over it to protect it.  Took a drive to Hyannis
on Cape Cod.....nice little town with a great marina port.  Had a great shrimp dinner in a fish house!!  The next day we took a train into Boston and did a bus tour of the city.....would have never been able to drive in this city..it was crazy!!   Then took another drive on the other side of Cape Cod and saw more of the ocean and quaint little towns and beaches the next day.
On June 13th we drove to Freeport, Maine.....had a lobster dinner for my birthday dinner which was wonderful!!  Followed dinner with a quick tour of LL Beans main store and was overwhelmed!

The next day we drove into Bar Harbor, Maine and camped at Acadia NP...the park was beautiful surrounded by water but not as much of a WOW  factor as the National Parks on the west coast...I guess we are spoiled!!

At this point we had to make a decision to turn around and come home......we had seen a lot but I had been having increasing pain in my knee and was really struggling getting around...so Art suggested we head home to get it looked at more seriously..I did have a cortisone injection before we left!!!  It lasted about 4 days......not a happy camper but I agreed.

We stopped in Ohio and had a great visit with my younger brother and his wife.  We had a major storm come through with winds up to 60 miles an hour...very scarey!!!
We are in Fort Collins, Co at this point visiting kids and grandkids and will be home sometime this weekend......

It will be hard to end this great trip but we are ready to see all our friends and family.

Talk to you soon!!

Pat and Art