It’s currently about 6:30 p.m. here in Maine and we landed at a campground in Eastport, Maine about 2 hours ago. For those who don’t know, Eastport is the eastern most point in the United States, unless of course as one of my readers pointed out you don’t count the part of Alaska that is over the International Date Line.
Thursday night was the Maine Moose Lottery Drawing event and I haven’t been able to find a place to log onto the Internet since that night. This is the first chance. For those who haven’t been to Maine or traveled around, it’s not the easiest place to get Internet or cell phone service and certainly no wireless G service.
I’ll be posting up a couple of stories I had some time to work on. They are mostly about the trip north and the Moose Lottery. Let’s just say the trip north was more than eventful…..and costly.
We plan to stay here at this site for 2 days. Tomorrow, if it ever stops raining, we will spend most of the day being tourists. Perhaps we will hit Lubec and the Quoddy Head Lighthouse. We’ll visit downtown Eastport which is a very old Atlantic seaport city.
I was looking at a tidal and sunrise map here in the campground office. Where we parked our rig to camp at around 4 the tidal water of Passamaquoddy Bay is as far as a hundred yards from our site. When the tide comes full, around 10:30 this evening, the water’s edge will be around 75 feet from the site. According to the tidal charts, the high tide maximum runs between 17 and 21 feet.
I was doing a little calculating yesterday and figured I had been in Maine since June 7. Today is the June the 21st. For the length of time I have been here, it has rained every day with the exception of 3 and 2 1/2 of those days occurred on our trip to Fort Kent.
I’ve been sorting through my emails and got through a bunch of them, deleted a whole bunch more and cleaned out 25,000 from my spam folder. If you have sent me an email, I’ll get to it as soon as I can.
Tom Remington
