Wow! What a day! We woke up in the Cabela's parking lot around 7 AM and drove to Cape Elizabeth, ME to the Portland Head Light House parking lot, where we had breakfast and then walked the trails along the cliff with unbelievable views of the quintessential Maine light house. Absolutely stunning!
Then we drove into downtown Portland. This was fun! We were trying to find parking in the late morning with a big camper van in the Old Port area. There was the one parking lot that would park us next to a guardrail for $45 a day. Nope! Too expensive for my tastes. The $15 a day lot was full though and the parking garages were way too short for my tall van. We must have circled the block and the filled $15 a day lot for 45 minuted before Jessica flagged down some people who were leaving and stood in the space until I could back into it. Parallel parking on a curve in a tight squeeze. Yep, fun! Anyway, we parked and then got lunch at Porthole. Ain't no laws when you're eating lobster claws (or lobster rolls as the case may be). Our first ever lobster rolls. First ever White Claw too!
We had all afternoon to kill and were not giving up our parking space for anything, so we walked a mile to the Portland Art Museum. And wow! What a nice gem of an art museum! Many Winslow Homers, Picasso, Renoir, Monet, Sargent, Whistler, Rockwell Kent, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. I even loved the modern art section here. Great, great museum. Five stars.
On the mile walk back to the car, we stopped at a local Italian market store and bought some rice crackers, creamy Havarti cheese, and an amazing bottle of moscato d'asti from Strev for our sunset cruise on the Wendameen. The Wendameen is a windjammer owned by the Portland Schooner Co. Our cruise of Casco Bay was from 6-8 and included a beautiful sunset and calm waters. Perfect weather for a sail! Following the sail, we had a 2 min walk to our car in the pier's parking lot. A beautiful red full moon was just coming up. Since we were paid for 24 hrs til tomorrow at 11:41 AM, we decided just to spend the night right there. No signs saying you couldn't. We expect to wake up to the sound of seagulls tomorrow.
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