Day 3: Aug. 5, 2009

The day started with getting up moderately early to close up camp (sweep, tidy, loaded up the vehicle, etc...) and we said farewell to the Boonville cabin until later in our journey. We put the Coachman Inn, Kittery, ME as our destination in the navigation system and headed east, way east. Five and a half hours later we arrived at the Coachman Inn. We received our room key and unloaded our luggage into our modestly sized room. We got cleaned up and headed out to find some grub. We were told to check out Warren's Lobster House, one of the most well-known seafood houses in the area. So we did, come to fine out everyone else knew it was the destination too. So we ditched our recommendation and sought out other options, we checked out this really cool looking place called Terra-Cotta Pasta Company. Too bad we don't have an oven in our hotel room or else we would have gotten something from there. We ventured on and found Loco Coco's Tacos, I know what you are thinking, we are in New England, what the heck are we doing eating Mexican and not SEAFOOD?! Well it was awesome!After filling our stomachs with beans, cheese and salsa we made our way across the connecting bridge to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Very cool town with narrow streets and plenty of eateries and shops. This is where found a seashell and fossil store, very cool, it had nice calm music and incense. We walked around the downtown area for a bit and made our way back to Kittery, ME where the main strip is loaded with Outlet Plazas. We mozied around Crate & Barrel, Ecco Shoes and Yankee Candle.

Then we decided to take a venture and look at some houses and stuff. We stumbled upon a town called York, ME. WOW! We stopped around the ocean and took some pictures by some rocks overlooking a sandy Atlantic beach and spotted a lighthouse in the distance. So we kept driving, as we passed beautiful beach houses and cottages we are glancing out at the sandy beach that went on for quite a few miles. We turned the corner passing (gorgeous) multi-million dollar homes and found ourselves eventually driving into the parking lot for the lighthouse. We found The "Nubble Lighthouse" in Cape Neddick. Complete accident. Driving through town we said to each other that we would someday come back to the town, to vacation again.

Once we returned to the Kittery area, we decided ice cream was very necessary. Earlier we had noticed an ice cream joint right next to where we are staying, so we went there. It's called "Mrs. And Me" and it's honest to goodness home-made ice cream! Jen got peppermint stick and I got Kahlua Fudge Brownie- with real chunks of brownie in it! We are now in for the night, relaxing.