LL Bean and Irresponsible Dog Owner

We continue our journey down the coast, with our destination for the night being Freeport, the land of everything LLBean. But we first get to enjoy more coastal towns and oddities like these two fellas hanging out beside the road at different homes.

Love it.

As we were driving, we noticed we were coming up on a pretty impressive bridge. And the closer we got, the more impressive it became. 

If you look at the top point, you can see some Windows where there is an observation deck where we enjoyed 360 degree views. 

Also right below the bridge was Fort Knox (no, we didn't make a detour to Kentucky), which is located right across the river from Bucksport.

And here is a selfie of us after 2 weeks camping in a Prius.

They set up the fort for Halloween, but some days this is how I feel^. Anthony couldn't resist getting a pic with this lovely.

And here is Bucksport.

A lot of towns look like this in Maine, but was able to get a good pic of this town from the Fort. 

We stopped in Camden on our way down the coast and got to enjoy it for a bit. There were people out and about, and I couldn't imagine it in the summertime. How do these towns absorb all the people who visit in the summertime?

But at this point in the season, we saw a lot of this:

We stopped in Rockport and got familiar with Andre the Harbor Seal, who was the star of books and a movie. He passed away in 1986, but left quite the impression on this area.

Rockport.

We had planned to stop in Rockland, but by that time the misty rain had started and the fog had rolled in, so we didn't stop.

When we told people we were coming to Maine, everyone who had been here before said we had to try the lobster roll. We asked Penny, our friend from Bar Harbor, where the best place would be to try one, and she said she didn't know of any better place than Red's Eats in Wiscasset. So we had been watching the dot on our map of Wiscasset very carefully because we knew we were going to get a lobster roll there. Even when we got there, in spite of it being drizzly outside, sure enough there was a small line. It is also highly recommended by TripAdvisor. It is not that impressive from the outside, just a roadside stand, but the amount of lobster on that roll was pretty impressive.

We headed to Freeport as our destination of the day and found the Flagship store of LLBean. The whole town is pretty much shopping, as there are all kinds of outlet stores all around to enjoy.

The next morning brought sunshine and we decided to head back up the coast to visit some towns we missed on the way down because of the weather. We went through Bath, the home of Bath Iron Works, who builds battleships, frigates, cruisers and destroyers. But more importantly, it is the home of Bikeman. Anthony recognized the sign from videos he has watched while working on his bikes.

And got to enjoy Boothbay Harbor, which is another beautiful town. There weren't that many people here and the stores were winding down, but we got to enjoy it without the hustle and bustle of a lot of tourists.

Although Boothbay was a great little town, Anthony and I will always remember it as the town with an irresponsible pet owner. We unfortunately stepped in some dog poo, and spent most of our time there walking through water puddles and scraping our shoes on curbs, lol. I hate it when that happens.