Bangor, ME

So, we agreed to stay an extra week at Lauren's aunt's house, so we could watch her dog while we went out of town. We stay 5 days of that, to find out "her landlord" does not want us to stay. We quietly left. We went to a Dick's to find Lauren a headlamp, but they didn't really have anything. We went to Panera for their internet, till they closed. We found an Eastern Mountain Sports to stay at. In the morning Lauren got her headlamp, and we got some bagels and did laundry. We headed all the way past Providence, RI and stayed in a Wal-mart parking lot. I was gearing up to "shop" for a few hours, but they closed at midnight. We went to Boston, but the traffic was incredible. It was moving-in day for the college students, and there was some street fair going on. We drove past Cheers and headed to a Panera to regroup. Then, we went to a park, but the music from the club next door was so bad we left. We stayed nearby the Sam Adams brewery. In the morning we were on the first tour. We tasted several of their beers (and their ingredients) all for free. We went across town to the USS Constitution, but the shit was closed that day for some reason. We went to the museum instead. We had lunch, and went back across town for a sampling at the Harpoon brewery. My favorite is still the Leviathan Imperial IPA. We headed up I-93, and found a McDonalds. They didn't have any wi-fi, so we went to another one, but it had no outlets. We used a light bulb socket adapter, but the assistant fat-manager said it wouldn't fly. He made up some story about how they were remodeling, because he didn't have the nerve to just tell us not to. We found a nice corner of a 24hr Wal-mart, and I got a 30 pack. We continued up 93 and drove out NH 112 and played in a  creek with the dog. He's doing pretty well, but he still had a few hard landings. We kept going North to what they call the basin. It had some very interesting stream beds. We  went all the way into Vermont for some cheese; I found an aged, maple smoked sharp cheddar. We headed east on US-2, and found a diner. We had good food and fantastic service. We continued on to a McDonalds, just north of Mt. Washington. It didn't have any outlets, but I was able to check the weather with my laptop battery. They had an amazing parking lot. We were so far away from the building, that we were able to leave the rear window open all night. We woke up to the sound of a small stream, just starting to flow out of a big pond. We, boogied for Mt. Washington. My truck doesn't have a CD or a tape player, so I had to put the "complimentary" audio tour on Lauren's laptop and run it through the truck's speakers. We went right up, stopping twice. Once to pick up some mica, and once to put on sweatshirts. We made it to the summit and took some pictures, but it was very foggy (cloudy?). We piddled around, and had some hotdogs, and eventually headed down. I didn't feel the need to cool my brakes, but I did go very slowly. After the decent, and a tour of their gift shop, we took off for Bangor, ME, and Lauren even got some wheel time on the way. We are headed to the Arcadia area in the morning, and maybe on towards Halifax. Hurricane Earl is supposed to hit sometime Friday...