Friday June 24, 2016 Hermon, ME

Last full day in the US before meeting the rest of our caravan in Saint John, New Brunswick.  Several members of our group are set to arrive on Saturday.  At least 4 other couples are in Bar Harbor about 40 miles from us on the coast.

We started this clear sunny day with our coffee and other morning routines of computer activity and reading.  In the afternoon we went sight seeing.  The Good Sam trip planning program I have been using can show points of interest along the way, including historic, scenic, quirky oddball sights, science and others.  We had already visited Stephen King's house (quirky and oddball).  Today we visited a replica covered bridge and war memorial located near the Cole Land Transportation Museum, we didn't go in the museum itself.  Those of you who know Gerri understand why.  She doesn't care for museums.  The grounds of the museum had war memorials.

We saw a giant statue of Paul Bunyan.








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We also visited the Thomas Hill Standpipe.  The standpipe was built in 1897 as a water storage facility for fire fighting in Bangor.  The tank inside the building holds 1.75 million gallons of water and is still in use to control water pressure to the city.

We went to Sam's Club for final grocery shopping.  We bought a camera to replace the one I lost in Niagara Falls.  We also went to a CVS to pick up a prescription for Gerri.

The sight seeing and shopping pretty much took us all around town.  We wanted to get some pictures of the Penobscot River, but several of the streets along the river were closed for some type of special event.  Gerri did get a picture across the river of an old boat moored on the other side.  It was a warm and clear day and the a/c was cooling down the rv when we returned for the day.