New England Trip 2010 (Day 3 – July 19)

Salisbury, MA to Old Orchard Beach, ME

We both slept very soundly tonight – the “bed” is very comfortable! We are trying to figure out a good way to store everything while we sleep. I’m sure it will come with a little practice and trial and error.

We started today driving north to Maine – it was finally lobster day!! (our first of two reasons for coming to the northeast!) We stopped in Portsmouth, NH, to look at a shop we had liked last time we were in the area. Then we stopped in Dover, NH. I had read about it being a cool small town, but we weren’t impressed. We did find a bakery so got a little something to eat. This is where Sandy comes in handy! It’s fun just eating in her at the little table. We didn’t stay long. Our next stop was in Kittery, ME. We stopped at the Kittery Trading Post for just a little. (It’s a big store kind of like Cabela's).

Next we are off to our favorite place in the world to eat lobsters! It’s called The Lobster Shack at Two Lights. We get there at a perfect time – it’s not very busy! We ordered our lobsters and then immensely enjoyed eating them in a very picturesque location! After that we hung out and took some pics.









So, now we are ready to find a campground for the evening. We find one in Old Orchard Beach, ME, called Hid’N Pines Campground. We get oriented and get our camp set up – pop the top and set up the bed – it doesn’t really take long! :) Then we decide to walk into the town – again not really our kind of beach town. It again reminded us of Ocean City, MD, boardwalk. Huge lightning started appearing so we decide to walk back. It was the biggest lightning I have ever seen – there were streaks across the whole sky! We got back to the campground and climbed into Sandy – we put the pop top down because it started raining. We sat (I must admit, a little freaked out) until the storm was over. I always remember hearing a car is the safest place in a storm – but a car in the middle of the woods with lots of lighting?? Probably not!! Thank goodness it stopped after a while, it was starting to get a little warm inside. We opened the windows back up and popped the top. We wrote out some postcards and went to sleep! ~Jess