Fall in New England, Part 5 - 2023

We traveled back to Freeport, Maine so Tom and Carol could experience more of Maine. We spent the afternoon after arriving checking out LL Bean and all the other shops around Freeport. We ate at Jameson Tavern which is one of the oldest taverns in Maine. It was built in 1779. According to their website, such luminaries as the poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier as well as the 14th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce were known to have stopped at this tavern on their way to Brunswick. Another interesting thing I read about this tavern is that they have ghosts. If you want to read more about the ghosts, check out this article. 

https://www.jamesontavern.com/spooky-history/

We met Tom & Rose at the Taste of Maine and had some delicious seafood.

And then checked out Booth Bay Harbor.

This sign was on the floor in one of the shops. 

The next day we took a trip to North Conway to check out the changing colors. We drove up the Kancamagus Highway. We saw another covered bridge. The colors were definitely there to see (not peak) but the fires in Canada made everything hazy so the colors on the mountains were hard to see.

We were out on the rocks on the Swift River, this is Ernie being Ernie 😂

Look at this tree trying to survive on the rock.

Some colors but the haze is really blocking the view of the color on the mountains.

We got a glimpse of the crumbled "Old Man on the Mountain". One of our early visits to New England (pre 2003) we had to take a second trip to see it because of fog the first time we drove up. On our wedding day, May 3, 2003, the old man crumbled. The second picture is what is left.