5/9/2023 0 Comments Lighthouse keeper lyrics![]() I immediately scurried down to the ticket counter, was third in line and got us rebooked. ![]() Saturday night? Small airport like Portland? We were in trouble. Weather in Chicago, which contained our connecting flight. came the text – our flight was cancelled. Between innings, we dropped off the rental car and made it through security. flight, so we could watch our granddaughter’s Alcott Middle School softball game via the GameChanger app. We arrived way early, 4 p.m., for a 6:55 p.m. Then it was off to Portland International Jetport. We drove Route 88, which for a few miles displays stately New England homes, not opulent but elegant. Falmouth backs up to the bay, with dozens and dozens of houses aligning the shore. Bartlesville is slightly bigger.Īfter redocking, we popped into our rental car and drove a few miles north through Falmouth, which a tour guide had told us has replaced Cape Elizabeth as Maine’s most affluent municipality. Portland has about 68,000 residents Lewiston, about 35 miles north of Portland, is Maine’s second-biggest city, with about 36,000 people. Portland and its suburbs account for seven of Maine’s 10 most populous cities. The Portland waterfront is quite impressive, with all kinds of commercial shipping taking place, and overnight, the cruise ship Norwegian Pearl had docked. The boat was far less crowded returning, since it was the middle of the day. The Ferry can handle about 10 cars at a time and hundreds of walkers. Tramel’s travel blog:Visiting Maine’s Old Orchard Beach is a time machine Taking the Casco Bay Ferry So we loitered around the Ferry dock, enjoying our final day on the sea. And Peaks Island is the most populous of those 136 islands, with an estimated population of almost 1,000 year-round and anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 in the summer. But a few of the islands have either residents or summer tourists or both. Most uninhabited and most part of Portland’s city limits. Tramel’s travel blog:Portland Head Light is awesome by land or by sea How many people live on Peaks Island, Maine?īetween Portland and Portland Head, where the ocean meets the bay, sit 136 islands. We took the Casco Bay Ferry to Peak’s Island for lunch, then we drove through the upscale Portland suburb of Falmouth, en route to the airport. (A reader asked who is Trish the Dish? Patricia Dawn King of Moore, Oklahoma, lost her mind and married me 42 summers ago. So on our last (half) day in Maine, Trish the Dish and I snuck in a couple of last-minute adventures. You came here to read about the pleasures of Maine. You didn’t come here to read about our problems. Like Southwest cancelling your flight to Chicago on Saturday evening, with no more available flights from Portland until Monday and all the rental cars sold out. Like sitting shoreside Saturday on Peaks Island, just off Portland, Maine, eating lobster rolls, watching the sailboats and enjoying the cool Atlantic breeze.
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