Saturday January 3, 2009

Traveling to Maine

The best thing about leaving early in the morning is seeing the sunrise from a variety of places.

Our traveling companions were both a bit handicapped!  Ashleigh (left) injured a tendon in her wrist while bowling – several months and two surgeries ago.  Our granddaughter Abigail broke her wrist yesterday while snowboarding.

Ashleigh has been living in Pennsylvania (with my youngest brother’s family) for the past few years.  This was her final move back to Maine.  (She moved most of her belongings earlier.) 

Abigail has been staying with our son Jere’s family since September – helping as a nanny to their youngest children.

This was our view of them during the entire trip, until they took the lead in Maine.  I offered to take a turn driving, but Ashleigh did quite well – and Abigail’s car is stick-shift.

We drove through a short snow squall halfway through the trip – in Connecticut.

About eight hours into the trip we saw “the bridge.” 

The Piscataqua River Bridge is the entrance to Maine when coming from the south.

Shortly after this, Ashleigh took the lead, taking us to her home in Lewiston.  After unloading her supplies, Cerwin drove Abigail’s car and I was behind the wheel of ours for the final half hour – to the Myers’ house.