Driving to Maine

Sunday, January 3

DSC_6614Our annual New Year’s trip to Maine – to visit with Mark and Diane’s family – was delightfully uneventful, consequently I read and didn’t take many pictures.

This was the 7:00 AM sunrise – about two hours into our trip.

DSC_6617We were fascinated by construction on the new Tappan Zee Bridge – over the Hudson River – north of New York City. Most of these big cranes are on barges – and there were lots of them – maybe 18 to 24.

I just read that construction on the new bridge began in 2013 and is scheduled to be finished in 2018. The cost is estimated to be 4 billion.

DSC_6618It was a beautiful day for our nine-and-a-half hour drive north.

DSC_6620We began seeing signs of an earlier snow as we approached Massachusetts.

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DSC_6636This is evidence that we were arriving in colder weather than we were used to during the past few weeks.