Maine

 After a healthy breakfast of oats with honey and banana, delicious Schmoopie-Coffee and normal morning-ness, we headed along the coasts of Maine to check out various beaches. The first, Seapoint Beach, was our favorite since it was less of a swimming beach and more of a hiking beach, with scattered folks waking their happy playful pups, throwing balls into the water for them to run at top speed and catch to return for round after round. There were loads of sweet little shells, all vying for my attention! There were tons of mounds of different kinds of seaweed lying all about and the sand was wet but much more walkable than the dry sand beaches. We meandered here a long time enjoying the hypnotic sound of the waves, the dogs and gulls antics, and hiked along the rough, rocky shores. It was cool, breezy and perfect until the humidity and warmth started making the mosquitoes wake up and eat us, which is when we decided to head to the next beach. 

We didn’t realize it at the first beach, but apparently all these beaches require a permit for parking which then keeps the tourists away, whoops! So we had to skip the next couple of because there was really no parking at all. We did find a spot near a beach at York Harbor, so we nabbed it and brought our peanut butter sandwiches down to the beach and ate sitting on some rocks as it began to rain. It was another beautiful beach and had a little cliff walk of its own, so after lunch we took that hike until the ominous “danger, cliff walk unsafe!” signs and rain made us turn around, but not before seeing some really lovely views from that vantage point. It was a popular spot and too skinny and rocky for easy passing, so it was slow going which suits me just fine. 

We then decided to head to see the Fishercats AA-baseball team play a double header, but after driving the entire way there, an hour, arrive to a completely empty and closed stadium. Apparently at noon, they cancelled the game due to Covid-19 contact tracing because the players tested positive. Blech. So turn right back around for another solid hour in the car to head back to Kittery. We are really tired of this much driving. 

So after chilling in the AirBnB for a bit, we then drove the three minutes to a local bistro (Bistro 1828) and had the sweetest time together looking out over the harbor. I had the seafood chowder (again), this version was really incredible, and John had the spring green salad with grilled salmon which was divine! I over indulged in a Spanish bubbly and now am too full to even think about sleeping! I usually eat dinner really early because I need like three hours to fully digest food before I can go to bed without discomfort so now I’m crabbing a bit that I ate and drank too much too late. You can see our photos of the lovely meals! It was totally worth the discomfort!