Ciao Maine, Hello Pollyanna

 

We left our motel in Bar Harbor before breakfast so we could take in the 8:30 am (second) service at Calvary Chapel Bangor. We got to sit with Jeanette Graves and after the service we had the joy of visiting with her husband, pastor Ken. Joining Jeanette and Ken at their home church has been bucket-list item for Kathy.

There was a great turnout for the services with lots of families and small children.

After church we drove through Bangor and stopped for some photos at Stephen King's old house, which now houses his foundation for aspiring writers. (No, you can't go inside, unfortunately.) When we first got there we were the only people parked on the street. In the time it took to take a few pictures, four more cars pulled up with people wanting their picture in front of the creepy fence. And really, can you blame them?

Our drive to New Hampshire took about four hours. Half way there we stopped at Annette's Country Skillet Diner in Naples, Maine (near Long Lake) for lunch. (My foot kept falling asleep). Lunch was fine, but I felt a little like I was in a time warp. We've been paying $20 each for lunch; here it was $10.

We spent the last half of our drive following the Kancamagus Highway from Conway to Lincoln. We got out to stretched our legs at the Albany Covered bridge, a favorite spot for fly fishing.

This is a Paddleford truss bridge built in 1858. You can see the trusses as you drive through it. 

A little further down the road we parked and walked a ways up Rocky Gorge. Our pictures, though, don't do the river justice.

We got to our hotel in Franconia New Hampshire around 5 pm. Franconia is the town where Elisabeth Elliot lived in the late 1960s. After we checked into our hotel, we were still hungry, so we drove eight miles up the Interstate to the town of Littleton and had some Thai food at the Chang Thai Cafe. (Again, the prices were very reasonable.) This is the town where Eleanor H. Porter wrote Pollyanna, whose statue stands in front of the town library.

Tomorrow, on our way to Vermont, we're going to visit the Franconia Flume Gorge.