Day 7

We woke very early today and were on the road by 5 a.m. First stop McDonalds for coffee and a biscuit. Finally found a new room saver coupon book for the areas were are in. We picked up some gas in Champlain at $2.83 a gallon. We could see the Adirondaks in the distance.

We were just minutes from Canada and decided to go into Quebec for two geocaches. The border guard was very hard for Jim to understand and she asked him twice if he was sure he spoke English. After I helped answer a few of the questions, she stamped our Passports and let us in. Everything is in French and not translated into English, very different than Ontario. We only stayed there an hour, just grabbing two caches. One was in a park and the other by an old church. We quickly crossed back into the states where we met the friendliest border guard so far. He thought it was great that we had traveled so far, and seemed to enjoy hearing about geocaching.

We immediately got on U.S. HWY 2, the same one that goes near us at home. We went right through the middle of Lake Champlain crossing bridges from island to island. We were in Vermont, the sky was blue and the temps in the 60's. We could see the Green Mountains in the distance but we eventually meandered into them. We stayed right on HWY 2 the rest of the day, zig zagging under, over and along Interstate HWY 89. The clouds started rolling in and I snapped many photos.

Stopping in Concord Vermont for gas at $2.59 a gallon, we were able to pick up a jar of homemade pickled fiddle head ferns and some post cards. We are saving the fiddle heads for when we get home so they can go in the fridge.

We saw numerous signs warning us of the dangers of moose in the area, but we did not see any.

We stopped at a mountain wayside for lunch and by 1:00 we were crossing the border into New Hampshire. Hwy 2 is called Jefferson Highway there and the mountains are called the White Mountains even though they look the same as the Green Mountains.

It pretty much rained after that so we did not get out and walk on the Appalachian Trail. We watched the elevation changes on the GPSr unit and were amazed to see us drop down to 300 feet and then quickly climb to 1700 feet, then back to 300, numerous times. Every valley had a town, most were established in the 1700's and had some wonderful achitecture.

We laughed when we entered another town called Mexico, this time in the state of Maine. When we neared Bangor, Maine we had to stop at 4 motels before finding one that had a washer and dryer for our use. We are at the Holiday Inn, which has a restaurant too, so we ate right here.

Today we traveled 361 miles and found 14 geocaches.