Another state in our wake. Maybe the most amazing thing is that we made it from Southwest Harbor to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, without stooping to the obvious puns. As in “Lobster floats are a Maine in the butt” and such.
Last night we had quite the treat when Paul and Kathy—owners of Miss Elly—picked us up for a delicious dinner. Big fun and we hope to see them again in New Bern.
We’d planned to stay one more night in Kennebunkport but decided this morning to head on out. Mostly it was just a straight shot down the coast, past Cape Neddick Nubble and the Nubble Light.
We’ve seen hundreds of lighthouses, but none with a better name. It’s such a cool lighthouse that in 1977 NASA sent a digitized photo of it into space aboard Voyager II as part of an informational package intended to educate any extraterrestrials who happened to intercept it. True story.
We docked at Wentworth By The Sea, but failed to take a photo of the iconic hotel that was built in 1874. We did, however, get one of the Portsmouth house—built in 1758—where Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones lived for a while before he started jamming with Jimmy Page and the other boys from Led Zeppelin.
Portsmouth definitely is a town worth a few days. Maybe we’ll come back but it’s a good travel day tomorrow.