Can understand why anyone would want to come up here for a summer retreat, regardless of their political persuasion. Very cute little town. Boats, water, big houses, restaurants, bars, shops... Cindy and I had a very comfortable 2 days here, even though we weren't here the entire time. Took a day trip to Portland along the coast...Highway 9 or 1, beautiful drive.
Their beaches? Are.not.swimable. But are beautiful to view and in middle of summer are eligible for picnics or wearing a wetsuit and getting in the water.
Best restaurant? The Hurricane. Great soup. Great salads. Great cocktails. Great service. We asked our waiter, Wally, if they stayed here year-round, and he said 9 months. Gone Jan-Mar. Said restaurant is over the water and it's impossible to heat the building, so they close down. In fact, there's hardly anyone who stays around here for 12 months. Hard to believe that people choose to live in places that is that desolate, but this is one.
Our B&B is really nice. Comfortable. Great bed. Nice sitting area. Good view looking out over the back yard towards nice acreage and water/boats in the distance. On 3rd floor, top room, skylight to the stars. And on first night, we're the only people in the house. 15 bedrooms. Second night - population doubles - another couple arrives from outside Boston.
This is typical of our entire week in New England. Vacation population is down. You would think after Memorial Day, traffic would increase, but not so. Everywhere the recession is hurting tourism.
On Tuesday, the day trip to Portland we are heading for Cape Elizabeth. Kristin has told us about a place to have lobster rolls at Cape Elizabeth; LJJ told us about cafe in Portland. We decided we can only have lobster roll at one place and Cape Elizabeth is the closest. I checked my notes. I got "Lobster Shack at Cape Elizabeth." On the road, the only place I see is "Two Lights State Park" at Cape Elizabeth. Haven't bothered anyone at home prior to now...bowl-hugging or no...and decide I should call KLF...and, God bless her, she's sitting at her computer, fires up her Google and goes, "...Go to the State Park, but don't go in; take the road to the left and it should dead end into the Lobster Shack." At that point we lost phone contact and lo and behold we drive straight into the Lobster Shack! Guess what? Best frickin' lobster roll you could imagine...well, unless you wanted to match it up with the Legal Seafood in Boston that James insisted we eat at, and then I'm not sure how in hell you would pick a winner. Somehow I didn't get a picture of the Lobster Shack, but did get the Lighthouse outside and shown above.
Definitely recommend Kennebunkport. Oh and we did see the Bush Compound and will had that picture above also. As a rule when people ask you where you are from here, and I can't imagine why they do that, and then we tell them "Texas" they want to know if we're with the Bushes. There's all sorts of responses we could give them...choose your own punchline...but, we just said, "no." (If you don't see a picture of the Bush home with the Texas flag (feintly seen lower than the US Flag next to Maine State Flag) it'll be on the next post.)
On to Newport. Though you may be watching Leno right now...Can't beat Letterman repeat last night with Tom Hanks - most outstanding performer in my lifetime, slightly ahead of Dustin Hoffman - but, best part of Leno tonight...James Taylor. What fricking goes around, comes around.
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