Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened...

to all those little things that should have been posted but weren't.

The best desert, hands down, especially since it was probably the only one we had, but nevertheless would have defeated all comers: at the Hurricane in Kennebunkport...Warm Chocolate Banana Bread Pudding with Grapenut Ice Cream with Bourbon Sauce. I'd give my first male child to have that again.

Sometimes you hear people complain about Toll Roads, especially "up East." The ones we experienced were very harmless...New Hampshire = 1 Toll Road for $1.50...Maine = 1 Toll Road for $1.00. Newport's Pell Bridge = $1/axle, which was fine, but Cindy said, "how many axles do we have?" Made me think...Texas should have a Toll Gate at the borders...$1/car. What an awesome revenue stream once the oil/gas royalties dry up.

Prices in Maine (for everything) should be about 4 times higher than they are. People are only there 3 months out of the year - at best. Some big nice house that is a Bed & Breakfast? To recoup the cost of that requires LOTS of boarders and HIGH fees...but, nobody's making me go there and invest in anything so I guess I'll just keep my mouth shut.

Legal Seafood in Boston? Numero Uno. Was planning 2nd trip but unexpected diversions prevented it. If you ever fly hungry into Providence there's one right outside the airport.

There's so many nice and friendly people in the service/travel industry that when you run across a sourpuss it really sets you back. They need to go find another job.

How lucky are we to have a son-in-law and a boyfriend that went to BC and escorted our daughters through Boston and then have the 4 of them recommend so many fun, nice places to go see in New England. Here's to our kids! (hiccup!) James, I tried drinking all the beers you recommended, but think it'll take another trip.

I totally recommend the Duck Tour. Thanks Nathan for suggesting that. Our ConDUCKtor was one funny and informative dude. I would have liked to have gone around with him again since he might accidentally have some different material. Oh, who am I kidding. It's probably just rote, but, he was a combination History Teacher plus stand-up comedian. The one "other" couple that was staying at our B&B in Kennebunkport that last night was from the Boston area. May have been older than us/me. And when I told him about the Duck Tour, he goes..."I've always wanted to go, but she says, we live here, blah, blah, blah..." I told him some weekend when she's out of town, he oughta go. Lady goes, "thanks." I have such a way with the women.

We met some nice people at our various stops. Always fun meeting people from other parts of the country/world. Cindy latched on to Young Phil at a bar in Boston. I made the mistake of giving him my business card with my email address at the end of the night. Have already heard from him. Pretty sure Cindy will recommend we adopt him.

It's pretty funny what people that have never been to Texas think it must be like down here. Even if they have. Residence Inn Manager said he'd been here and been to the restaurant where they "cut off your necktie." That's his image of Texas.

Gift Shop Owner in Kennebunkport asked me what would his family do on vacation in Dallas, especially since there are no mountains or beaches. Told him I'd never been on vacation in Dallas, so it was a bit of a tough question. Ended up telling him they could go to 6 Flags, water parks, Ranger Games, J.R. Ewing's Ranch, 6th Floor School Book Depository...and he can go get his necktie cut off.