Anyway when we got to Freeport, we stopped at this bakery that we had heard a lot about which was called When Pigs Fly. But we had gotten up so early, unintentionally, that they weren't even open yet. So we went and had breakfast. And breakfast was at Linda Bean's Tavern. 
John had blueberry pancakes that practically floated off the plate, and I had a brown bread egg sandwich with venison sausage that was absolutely delicious. I don't know what the brown bread was, it was kind of sweet and when I asked later at the bakery they said they thought it was like what you get for canned bread. I have never bought canned bread, so I have no clue what that is. But if it is, it's delicious. We did make it back to the bakery. Bought a loaf of cranberry blueberry lemonade bread. And a Heath bar chocolate chip cookie that remains to be eaten. 
After we left the L.L. Bean store we decided we were going to go to Boothbay Harbor. But after we drove as far as Bath, and realized it was still another 36 miles we decided not to go there. As luck would have it we found a Maine tourist office. Now the state of Maine runs these tourist offices, which are really, really good, because the people in them are very friendly and very well informed. The woman running this one told us about two other places we could go to, because we wanted to go to a beach, which were closer and more beachy than Boothbay. (we had been looking to go to Boothbay because they had a cool horticultural garden there. ). So we went instead to Popham State Park beach, which was really a nice beach. 
A lot of beaches in Maine don't have any sand, but this one did. And it had a rocky point at the end of it that you could climb up on granite rocks. And when you got up there it was like you were on the top of the world, even though it was probably no more than 20 feet above the beach. But that's a big hill in Maine.
We stayed at the beach for about 2 1/2 hours, including the hill climb. It was really a wonderful day. On our way back we stopped at a clam place and had clam chowder and a strawberry, spinach and goat cheese salad. I had a blueberry ale which was surprisingly good. John had a beer called smiling bastard, or maybe it was smiling Irish bastard. Not as good as my blueberry ale.
We also managed to make it at 5:55 to the whoopie pie store and get a couple of whoopie pies for tonight's dessert. 
We will need them to make us happy while we're having to consolidate all our junk because tomorrow we turn in the rental car. 
Right now the plan is that if we leave early enough in the morning and it isn't raining, which is actually somewhat of a big if, we are going to go to Newburyport, which I think is in Massachusetts, but it might be in New Hampshire. Then we will turn the car in in Boston, and spend three days there before we come home. I am very sad to leave Maine. I would probably stay here for the rest of our trip except we changed the car reservations and made hotel reservations in Boston, and it sounds like too much trouble to change all that to stay here another three days. And I know I will like Boston once I get there.
When we got back to the hotel I went for my "power walk" which my Apple Watch requires I do before I am allowed to go to bed at night, and when I came back to the hotel I met Janice and Mike from our trip and we exchanged ideas about what else we might do while here. We may at some future time do a Road Scholar with them to Mount Rushmore and the Dakotas.
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