We drove down the Maine coast along US-1. Our road atlas said it would take the same amount of time to drive the coast as it would to drive back up to the highway and along 95. It was wrong. Ah well, we stopped and got lobster rolls and lobster stew. Later we stopped at a little market run by a grandma and bought some hurricane groceries and a blueberry pie. Also, the Maine coast is quite touristy, probably more so than the Oregon coast.
We stopped in Portland to visit the Urban Farm Fermentory. Unfortunately it was closed. There was another guy in the parking lot hoping it would magically open, so in theory we just hit an odd day. Instead we drove a little further and found the Maine Mead Works. The mead was good, though not great. The two guys running it are still young though and I think they'll do good things. We picked up a bottle of the hopped mead. After mead we found Allagash Brewing. Their most cool-sounding beers were either sold out or not yet released, so we tasted their year-round stuff. The trippel was pretty good, though we weren't big fans of their Cabernet beer. Too bad we'll be in South America when the fun beers arrive in the stores.
Portland looked like a nice town, though the grocery store we hit for the last of the hurricane food was a little frightening. Perhaps we'll save Maine for the vacations. After leaving Portland we drove straight down to Cape Cod through the rain. We're staying at Mel & Eli's to ride out Irene. Looks like it will mostly miss us here; we're thinking of going to the bar down the street for their hurricane party this afternoon. It is a tad windy though.
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