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Due to technical difficulties logging on Wednesday night, I’m combining the last two days in this post.

We’re now in Mystic Seaport, Ct., after starting at the beginning of U.S. 1 on the Canadian border. We’ve spent the past couple of days traveling U.S. 1 as it runs along the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire before heading further inland in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. We’re back on the coast for the Connecticut run.

The start of any U.S. 1 trip has to be the marker located in Fort Kent, Maine, just over the border with Canada.

Along the way as we moved down U.S. 1, we learned more about the Acadians, who are the forefathers of the Cajuns. We also fought off black flies, an annoying Maine curse. It’s not easy trying to take photos when a half dozen flies are all around you. We stopped for the night at the Maine Idyll Court, a delightful old-style motor court in Freeport.

Thursday’s trek can be divided into two distinct parts. We did a U.S. 1 run and a Revolutionary War trek. Out first big snarfing venture was in Portland, Maine, where our finds included the home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a statue of John Ford. A visit to Portsmouth, NH, included a snarf of the home of John Paul Jones. We stayed on U.S. 1 through to Newberry, Mass.

The latter part of our day was spent traveling the Lexington-Concord route in Massachusetts. While it wasn’t on U.S. 1, how could you resist? We saw where the first shots were fired in the American Revolution on Lexington Greens. We traveled to Concord, where we saw the famous Minuteman statue symbolizing the intense fighting by citizen-soldiers against the British troops. Traveling the route and visiting Minuteman National Historic Park are a must for American history buffs.

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