I escorted Mom from WPB to Columbia. Dani had already arrived by the time Mom and I got home. We had a lot of fun relaxing from our travels and catching up. Danita’s food was amazing. We visited Charlestown, a senior independent living community run by Erickson. The visit went well. The next day we had lunch at Gertrude’s, the restaurant at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Then we took a tour of some of the sculptures in the museum. We were hoping to visit the outdoor sculpture garden, but the rain dictated we focus on the pieces that are indoors.

Then we moved up the coast to Bangor / Hermon. Southwest has direct flights from Baltimore to Maine, but they use the airport in Portsmouth, about two hours from Dani’s. Dani and Gail graciously offered to make two round trips to Portsmouth. We enjoyed more amazing food, including an excellent lobster dinner. We visited Solstice, an elderly independent living facility in Hermon. Solstice’s building was beautiful — bright and cheerful. Unfortunately, the rooms were small, they did not have kitchens, and the food at lunch wasn’t very good. We tried to visit a couple of elderly apartments, but they had waiting lists and the owners weren’t willing to show us an apartment.

But we had lots of fun in Maine. The ladies did some shopping while I sat in the “man chairs” and read or played with my phone. We ate at some very nice restaurants. We visited the cabin (very nice!). There was a good amount of rain, but it was mostly at night — just like in Camelot. Mom needed a sun hat and mud boots to make it up and down the trail to the cabin.And Dani and Gayle took delivery of a brand new Kubota tractor. Everybody got to drive the tractor except Mom.

Sunday, it was time to go home. We left Dani’s at 7:30 AM; Mom got home sometime after 7:30 PM. But the travel was all uneventful and everybody arrived safely at their destinations.

There’s plenty of pics below. I hope this finds everybody doing well.