West Newbury, MA

Yesterday we left the boat right after breakfast at
7:30 am. We drove to Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
We were very lucky and found a motel room across the
road from the beach. Also across the street is
an amusement park and in back of the motel is Amtrak.
We didn't care. Everything was full up and we really
didn't expect to get a place at all. For us this
was perfect. We were in the midst of the summer
beach scene. Our room was $139. but he said he'd
lower it to 129 because we didn't have air conditioning.
This was why the room hadn't rented. I asked if we
couldn't have a discount because we were so old. We
ended up paying 105 including tax. I don't know
how that was figured, but I made no compaints.

We had a wonderful time. We walked the beach and
visited the arcade and the amusement park, listened
to two guys from Peru making beautiful music in the
park. I bought their CD. We had fried clams somewhere
along the way and finally made it back to our non-
airconditioned room about 11 PM. We watched CNN
for a while listening to film clips of former
presidential nominees making their acceptance
speeches until we were sleepy. We turned off
the TV and the next thing I knew it was 6 AM.

We walked the beach again before breakfast and
after breakfast we packed up and left. We
drove along the coast for quite a while, but
the roads were packed. We were not in a hurry,
but it did get old finally.

We arrived here at Sue's shortly after noon.
She and I have been visiting ever since. Her
son, Kit and family, showed up. I haven't
seen Kit in about 40 years. I would recognize
him. He has grown up, but looks much the same.