YUM! Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Green Mountain Coffee, Cabot Cheese, Cold Hollow Cider, Lake Champlain Chocolates: we tried them all today. It was a cool and rainy day; a good day to drive up to Waterbury and check out the "factory" tours and tasting. Yesterday was sunny and warm as we toured the capitol building, history museum, and walked around Montpelier. Each day we see more and more color in the leaves...

In Bangor today; our first oriental chicken at Applebee's in a long time - yum. Then we thoroughly enjoyed a shopping experience at the new, large, brown brick, new logo WalMart Supercenter; we've been keeping a list of items we have missed for three months and it was so very, very exciting. We filled up at Irving but gas was $2.63/gallon instead of .99/liter equivalent to $3.78/gallon. On the down side, the traffic is crazy; we've seen more cars today than we have in total for several weeks. We are heading to Gorham and then Montpelier by week's end. Not sure what wifi will be like along the way.

On this fine sunny Sunday we drove up to Hartland, NB, and drove across the longest covered bridge in the world - 1282 feet, built in 1901, one lane, across the St. John River. Great little town, too; then we drove out to the Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company for a tour and a taste of hot kettle cooked chips right off the line. We're going to miss our waterfront campsites.

Here we are camped along the St. John River. Earl has passed through Nova Scotia and is nearing PEI and then into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We've had rain on and off here in Woodstock since 6 am; this has been an ideal opportunity to get pictures onto myphotoalbum. We'll hang around the rest of Labour Day weekend before heading into Maine. Hope you are all safe and relaxing.

Enjoying our stay in Fredericton; nice provincial capital city. The college students are arriving; school starts for everyone on Tuesday. We're ready for our mail and phones so we plan to cross the border one day next week. The leaves are changing, too, although it has been 85 degrees and humid recently. Looking forward to a Walmart Supercenter, too; and a Vitamin Shoppe.