Here are pictures of on our way up.
Baked Bean factory:
Mountains and trees.
Church
I was on a quest to find the perfect "ell" which are the connecting rooms between a house and a barn. My friend, architect Scott Benson, worked with his professor, Thomas C Hubka, who wrote a book about them entitled " Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England" published in 1984. The Ells could be a summer kitchen, upstairs could be bedroom for hired help. We passed a few perfect ones that I didn't get a shot of but here are a few that might qualify found mostly in Maine but a few in New Brunsick:
On our way to Presque Isle Air Force Base we ran into the logging industry:
Piles of stacked trees delimbed next to a mill:
We passed trees changing colors and fields of taters dug and undug and only one with center pivot irrigation and followed a farmer taking his equipment down the road, saw partially underground potato storage buildings. Incidentally, the next day we went past McCain headquarters, the largest potato processor.
Tater equipment dealership in Presque Isle:
At Presque Isle base one of the hangers was taken over by Aroostook Trusses, otherwise, mostly abandoned buildings.
We went into Presque Isle to eat dinner at Governor's - a local chain, took these pictures in town:
A cruise missel in tribute to the base that left designed in the 60s Rick said it was an amazing piece of technology because of its navigation system.
Next stop was Loring which had been turned into a pretty inactive commercial park, although Sitel had taken over the fairly new commissary building. Train tracks ran through the base.
KC 135 hanger:
10 engine, 400 spark plug B36 Hanger that could only hold one plane on each side. Changing spark plugs was an all day job for two guys:
Closer view:
Side view with Rick:
Rick and Mark were delighted to find a Russell train track snow plow still there:
A lot of the base has been converted into the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge so we took some time to explore it, walked down a trail. No moose were seen.
Next, on our way to New Brunswick we passed what we think were broccoli because we saw a truck hauling it:
Finally, went through the border crossing into New Brunswick, Canada and arrived in French speaking Grand Sault. Signs were in English and French.
Checked into the Hilltop Motel which had a water advisory:
The Hill Top Hotel with red roof - overlooked the falls -which didn't have a lot of water and a lot of exposed rock. We took a walk before dark to look and at the Zip line attraction over the falls and finished the night drinking wine and eating snacks.
This is a panorama.
The Zip Zag zip lines went across the water. Where was all the water, anyway? Seemed like the Grand Falls would be more grand with more water.
We ended the night snacking and wining in our room before calling it a night and planning our departure for 7 am in order to get to Saint John by 11:30 during slack tide at the reversing rapids.
No comments:
Post a Comment