RETURN TO PORTLAND

This morning there was a beautiful sunrise at frigging 5:15, and I actually made John wake up and look at it. 

Today was a travel day and we had a four-hour bus ride back to Portland from Bar Harbor. It was pleasant enough but John's been sick all morning so he wasn't having a very good time. When we got here we collected the car and went to lunch at a pub, the Little Tap House, which we thought would have pub food, but was actually very farm to fork. John had a really good BLT, and I had a smoked salmon sandwich and zucchini tomato soup with fried Parmesan cheese.

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Then we visited the Portland Art Museum. This is a smallish museum with a pretty nice collection. 

John came back to the hotel to rest and I went walking on Congress Street, which is a block away from our hotel. It's a pretty interesting hipster kind of street. It has a really interesting vintage shop where nothing in it is newer than the 60s. And it has a huge collection of mink coats. There are at least three shops which cater to the vinyl record crowd. 

There is also a big sort of antique mall called Portland Flea which was kind of interesting, and a place called Reny's which is a chain and has kind of an odd mishmash of things that I suspect is sort of like Marshall's carries, but more woodsy or something. Kind of hard to describe.

While I was wondering around I decided to check out a place where I wanted to have dinner, because I wasn't very hungry and it's a tapas place. It's called Local 188, and the tapas were really good. 

We also had some time to listen to a Brazilian style group called Choro Brasília, 

Part of a Summer park event sponsored by the city. Tonight we are in our hotel room trying to figure out where were going to go tomorrow, and planning on that being in Kennebunkport. I hate it when I have to do this blog on my phone, because it crashes every time I make an edit.  And I am so tired, I am making millions of mistakes, because I keep falling asleep.  The Internet in our room is mostly not on.  And for some reason, the iPad doesn't even want to accept the phone as a hot spot.  Tomorrow, I'm doing this in the lobby