Traveling with Megan - Day 6

York, ME (USA)
18 July 2014

The storm has finally cleared. It left a ton of fallen trees that were pulled up by their roots in its wake. The trees crashed into a few houses ruined a few fences and smashed a car. They say it was a micro-hurricane. 
This has made the whole town covered with stray tree branches and rubble from the wind. We did more relaxing today and they played pool. 

It's our last night in Maine. We are going to a Thai restaurant for dinner and then a movie. 

The fire station on the way to the movie with Jared

Eika

Traveling with Megan - Day 5

York Harbor, York, ME (USA)
16 July 2014

The Wiggly Bridge and river at low tide

The house lost power from the storm and we didn't get it back until the next morning. This is normal here and Bonnie had electric lanterns for everyone to carry around as it grew dark. The kids didn't know what to do without electricity. After the huge storm passed the sky brightened back up again and Megan and I went for a sunset walk along the river. (I think Megan just wanted to put her rain boots back on so she could walk through the puddles and not around them.) We followed the river north west and ended up at the Wiggly Bridge. Megan can barely say it without smiling. "Wiggly bridge Wiggly bridge" It's aptly named because it is indeed wiggly when you walk across it. It runs across the river and onto a small forest covered island.

It's so foggy that you could hardly see the bridge as you cross it. And all the trees in the backyard are completely hidden by fog.

Eika

Traveling with Megan - Day 4

Portsmouth, New Hampshire (USA)
16 July 2014

We went to New Hampshire today. Megan is trying to take me to the most states as she can. We drove to a beautiful town called Portsmouth on the Piscataqua river that also had a port onto the Atlantic. We walked along the brick sidewalks looked at the picturesque, old (well they think it's old poor people it's only 150 years old) buildings. 

We walked by places called Stawberry Bank, Badger's Island, and drove by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard which is on a man made island on the river. 

Megan bought frozen yogurt and a juice smoothie (when is that girl not hungry?)

It's thundering outside now and raining. Megan is going outside for a walk in borrowed rain boots. (You can't stop her once she's determined.) I'm staying inside nice and dry.

Eika

Traveling with Megan - Day 3

York Harbor Beach - The Nubble Lighthouse (USA)
15 July 2014

Maine is full of long, flat, rocky beaches and lots of lighthouses. We went to dinner at a small restaurant on the boardwalk that had just been refurbished and had a view of the Atlantic. Then we went to see the closest lighthouse called The Nubble (no clue why) set out on the cliff. It was really windy by the lighthouse as we're expecting another storm. 

Me and the goldfish 

We went to the grocery store today and you can only imagine Megan's glee at getting to have experience the overindulgence that is shopping at an American grocery store. She bought boxes of blueberries, Dill pickles, sushi and goldfish..... Obviously not to be eaten together. It's crazy how happy food makes her. It rained last night and now it's too humid to go outside. It feels like you can't breathe when you do. So she's sitting here reading.


Miss you.

Eika

Traveling with Megan - Day 2

York, Maine (USA)
13 July 2014 


The Kelly's house. Behind me is the Library. So awesome

Scooter :). He's going to be a good ally. 

I really like Maine. We went to the beach and Megan went surfing. Which is crazy because the water was 10 degrees. She said it was so cold her heart hurt. I said "I told you so." 
We watched the World Cup had pizza and Megan read a lot. The house here is amazing!! You have no idea. 
I hung out with Scooter. He's a very friendly cat who meows a lot and is always trying to escape outside.
It's just about to rain. There are a lot of summer storms here. I'm going to try and convince Megan NOT to go in the rain... She doesn't listen to me.



Eika

Traveling with Megan - Day 1

From Barcelona (Spain)  to Boston (USA)
13 July 2014

Well, Megan dragged me all the way up to Montjüic last night and then didn't go to sleep till 3. We got to the airport this morning with too much time to spare but that made Megan happy because she could have more coffee. 

In the BCN airport Megan saw the blind woman she sees around Barna and once she helped the woman onto the metro. It was weirdly serendipitous. 

Our first flight was delayed it was to Paris so no surprise there. Duty is going to be jealous when he realizes how much I got to fly.

We made it to Boston which is beautiful to fly into and are on the bus to York, Maine.