Tuesday July 24 Houlton Maine to Southborough Mass Day 11

An early start for Pat and Dave, as he is going to visit his brother in PA and maybe dad in Iowa. We traveled down the road at a good speed passing many a beware of moose. Some other animals I forgot to mention was a dead porcupine.

The fun stop was at the Old Town canoe factory. Jim had one of the Old Town canvas canoes with his brother years ago. The canvas is medium green and the inside varnished wood – what a great look. The new canvas canoe’s cost 4,000$. The unfortunate thing about that canoe was that on a cold late November last fishing trip of the year they went broadside and hit a tree stump. The boys could not get out as the ice kept breaking when they tried to get out. As luck would have it they came to an incoming stream and were able to get their way out. They made it to a farmhouse and the people warmed them up.

We got back on the road and stopped hours later for gas and food at a Burger King and Pizza. Not a note worthy lunch. Dave and Pat split off at Marlborough and we proceeded into town. But just as we pulled off the highway a C6, the cure for cancer one pulled ahead and we caught up at a light I asked how do we get there. He said follow me. We pulled up to the area and there was corvette parking we were ushered into. We had to pay 10$ to look at the cars but well worth it. They had cars from 1953 up to 1991’s, all colors and types. A feast for the eye’s.

Off we went to Southborough we went to find the grave of our best man at our wedding and pay respects to his memory. We found the cemetery where my old Navy friend John Lewis Cochrane was buried. He helped mature me, well as much as one could, and helped me become a qualified submariner on the Tecumseh. His grave stone had the same hosta’s as the Klink's.... hosta’s I have in the trunk for Lew’s grave from Aunt Vi’s grave.

We found a place to eat close to the Comfort Inn. The 1790 Colonial Restaurant House was a stately old building. We started with a glass of wine and a crab cake, a 5 on a scale of 0 to 10. The dinners were much better. Shirleen had a filet and sweet potato fries, Jim a scallop casserole, I had quick seared scallops, with crab claws on top of risotto rice and three crossed asparagus with a liberal amount of béarnaise sauce to cover the rice. This brought the meal up to an 8.

Off to Boston tomorrow, hope to miss the traffic by a later start. jerr