Friday, June 5, 2009

Welcome to Maine!

With Erik's vacation and my 9 days in a row off, we decided to fly to Maine to spend a few days with Erik's old college roommate, Leni and his wife, Kim. There are four lovely girls in their house ages 14, 5, 2 and 4 months. It's a busy household!

We got passes for the family on AirTran, that being the best option for us to get from Colorado to Portland, ME. It should have been 3 flights for us: Denver-Atlanta-Baltimore-Portland, but after the flight to Atlanta was full we ended up taking a Frontier flight to Reagan airport in DC, then taking the Metro train and a bus to Baltimore, then catching up with an AirTran flight to Portland. Leni picked us up and after another hour and a half drive, we arrived at their house about 7:30 pm local time. Whew! It was a long travel day, but could not have gone more smoothly considering non-revenue travel. So guess what? You CAN "get theah from heah!"

We had a late supper of authentic New England clam chowder and crab cakes, got an incredibly good night sleep and are now on our way to go explore the Maine coast, which is fogged in today, so we will also get to experience some authentic Maine lighthouse foghorn sounds. Cool....

1 comment:

Susan said...

Well, that explains how you got from here to there! I think we'll have to pass on that party in VT, unless I get a lot of days off...

I envy all the wonderful food that you've already had in your short time there!

Have a wonderful time!!!