St Andrews to Freeport and Cedar Haven

We’re off to the US border this morning, with a sunny 10C day. It was just 8C at 8am, but warming up. After an easy border crossing we eventually got on track and headed down US#1.

Note that the main border crossing has moved out of St Stephen town now. The crossing that was for trucks is now the main crossing, somewhat north of town. Note that the Duty Free store has moved out there too!

Since we don’t bring much in the way of groceries into the US, we stopped at a Hannaford store in Machias and stocked up a bit. We can’t remember the name of the place, but we had a great late breakfast at the corner of #185 and #1.

Of course I had to have a browse at the Marine store in Searsport, then we pressed on to Freeport via #1 and #265. NOTE: stay on the freeway until an official Freeport exit. The turn from #1 directly to  #265 is very dangerous, crossing traffic on the opposite side of the divided highway, virtually a Uturn.

We had a hot dog and drink at a kiosk outside Beans, then went our separate ways into the massive LL Bean store(s). Cath got some light weight pants for walking, a long-sleeve top, and a couple of nice big towels (one for Meagan as it turned out). Gord got a replacement hose for our propane tank, which did work well and finally fixed our stove problems.

We ended up staying at Cedar Haven (formerly Sandy Cedars?) again, $34.50 US Good Sam price for a site with electric and Wi-Fi. It wasn’t a very good site, it looks like they’ve been flooded out recently and repairs aren’t being done.