Picking up where we left off…
Day Five: We made it to Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire mid-afternoon. I and both kids each put $20 bills into the token dispensers and went to town dropping those tokens into machine after machine. Susan played a lot of Skee-ball, Morgan played ticket redemption games, and Mason spent his time between the ticket machines and playing the old classics with me. Me, I never left the third floor, dropping coin after coin into retro arcade classics, some of which I hadn’t seen in 25 years. After the last game was played, we moseyed over to the Crazy Gringo and had some Mexican food before hitting the road and heading north to Maine.
If you follow me on Facebook you’ve already seen my pictures from Funspot, but I uploaded them to a local gallery as well in case you missed them.
Day Six: We arrived in Porter Cove, Maine late at night and couldn’t tell what the view was like until the morning. On the morning of day six we watched the sun rise over the ocean. After relaxing near the ocean for a bit (too cold to go in) and letting the kids play bean bag toss (need to get some of those for the backyard) we headed to downtown Porter Cove where we hopped on a small tour boat and motored down the coast to go see some historic Maine lighthouses. 90 minutes later and back on land I had a lobster roll from Barnacle Billy’s for lunch. So, so good.
At this point, we had to make a decision. We had intended to head to New York City next, but Susan had just been informed that she needed to be on a plane next Sunday. With our current plans that would have put us in NYC Wed/Thurs, with Fri/Sat left to drive 25ish hours back to Oklahoma. After weighing the pros and cons we decided to cut off the NYC leg of the trip and save it for another time. This allowed us to spend a bit more time in Maine, and drive back to Oklahoma over three days instead of two.
We headed southwest and stopped in Albany (again) for the night.
Day Seven: We drove. We left Albany in the morning and landed in Indianapolis, Indiana last night around 1 AM. Our only real stop yesterday was at Duff’s Famous Wings outside of Buffalo, New York. You have to have buffalo wings in Buffalo, New York — that’s a given — and Duff’s are famous for a reason. Even Mason, who doesn’t eat wings, ate some and loved them.
This morning (technically day 8) we got up and head breakfast here at the hotel. The kids are swimming off some energy. Check out time is 11 AM at which point we’ll be hitting the road again.
Are we there yet??
You can not go wrong with Buffalo’s finest, Duffs always for the win.
Loved the shout-out for Duffs. I went to the University of Buffalo and went to Duffs many, many times over the years. The best wings in Buffalo. We liked Duffs better than the Anchor Bar, although the fact that they were 5 minutes away and a lot cheaper definitely had something to do with it.