Maine

Today was kind of a bust. We left Acadia and started driving U.S. 1 down the Maine coast. It took about 3 hours to go 120 miles. Our stop was the Musical Wonder House in Wiscasset, Maine. We arrived there a little after noon, but they were short-handed. We had wanted to take the 1 hour tour of the Music Box Museum. But our guide was also asked by a couple to look at the antique music boxes, since they were interested in purchasing one as a collector’s item. So we saw an amazing set of music boxes built in 1840 and later. He had about 20 different boxes from lunch box size to suit case size, some played metal discs, and others, cylinders (some of which were interchangeable). That sort of ended our tour, we never saw the museum music boxes because this couple was ready to invest about $5000 in one of these antiques. We had an interesting talk with the other member of the museum – he was from Brazil, had 6 college degrees and risen through the education ranks there all the way to being asked to be in the ministry of Education. But the corruption in the government was too much – he eventually continued his education in the U.S. and immigrated here. At 2:00, we gave up and headed down the road, too late for our next stop at Longfellow’s house. But we ended up in a beautiful campground along the coast in Wells, Maine.