If it seems that I’m jumping around a little here, I’m just backing up and telling about the trip bit by bit… I’m sure you can keep up; there’s only a little to backtrack on.

On Saturday we left Acadia and drove up to Bangor, basically to say that we’d been there.  One of the locals at Jaspar’s (our dinner stop in Ellsworth the first night before heading into Acadia. I highly recommend the all you can eat London broil and a cup of seafood chowder.) had mentioned they had a strip club up there.  It was much nicer that the old strip club and had all new furnishings… He was pretty sure the previous owner had sold all of the old accessories on Craigslist.   The new owner had several other clubs in the South in addition to the club recently opened in Bangor, but they were opened as different entities though just in case one of the establishments got into any legal trouble. This way the other clubs couldn’t be connected and he could stay in business.  In any case, in addition to selling the old furnishings, online… the previous owner had also listed “other things” for sale as well.  That’s why she got shut down…..well,  according to the local anyways.  According to the waitresses folding napkins nearby, it wasn’t the “online sales” that were the issue but actually a nasty outbreak of scabies that closed the place down…

So we drove through Bangor with a brief stop to gas up then on through to Augusta and onto Lewiston. Actually Auburn, which is just on the other side of the river about 20 minutes Southeast of Norway.  I popped into BuffaloWildWings to catch some of the World Series before overnighting at the local Walmart.

In the morning we headed out and drove past Portland heading South towards Boston.  I checked my handy app, which lists all of the camping and rest stop areas in the U.S. and realized we were very close to Salem.  This intrigued me as I have always been sort of fascinated by the area.  It was also interesting that we could check out the area during Halloween week, which made the area a hot-spot for tourism due to the history of the witch trials.  I decided that this would be our stop for the evening and we pulled into the Winter Island camp area and I couldn’t have been happier with the decision.  You can read more about the time spent there in the pictures section that will illustrate some of the high points of the stay.  (this will be the next post so don’t worry if you can’t find it yet.)

Stay tuned and thanks for stopping by!