Usually I’ll only write one entry per day as this takes quite the time with the driving, the sorting, the labelling, the research and the writing of each post. But today I feel like just kickstarting the next installment of my Ford Transit Road Trips! Where to? Weeeell… I don’t actually want to reveal that, yet. But I’ll tell you where we started and why I am doing this - right now.
2nd Road Trip: United States of America.
001: From Augusta, ME to Wilton / Dryden, ME
Okay, so why am I driving around Maine? Easy, I want to explore a country that is (for me as a German at least) a pretty exotic, distant and sometimes really weird place. I never visited the US, I didn’t fly much in its borders and most of my knowledge about it comes from geography class in school as well as random facts I came across in my life. I want to learn more about this land and it’s people, so why not do a road trip?
We started in central Augusta, ME at Memorial Park before leaving the city on ME27, past Maine General Express Care. As you can see I even downloaded both World Updates for the USA, which I normally don’t do (as I seldom travel in updated countries).
Leaving Augusta (and the photogrammetry with its floating textures) behind us we followed the road past Belgrade, ME and Belgrade Lakes, ME (hehe this is kinda fun!) as well as a village which turned out to be a poultry farm in real life (Pine Tree Poultry to be specific).
At Douin’s Market & Diner we turned west onto US Route 2 (East) and crossed Sandy River at New Sharon.
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On the northern bank of Sandy River the dense forests eased up and revealed beautiful scenes of the distant hills and mountains beyond the river to the south.
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After an hour of driving and an improvised stop at what turned out to be a motel with a gargantuan Walmart behind it (Colonial Valley Motel), we arrived in Dryden, ME, just south of Wilton, ME (I actually love the “x,State name” thing, it’s hillarious!). Tomorrow, we’ll carry on, but first a new segment I’ll be doing from now on:
What I learned today:
- Maine wasn’t one of the “13 Colonies”, but remained a part of Massachussets until 1820 (actually didn’t knew this, I always thought it existed back then!)
- American supermarkets are enormous, like the one near Dryden has the size of an industrial plant!
- As I listen to radio stations from wherever I fly / drive, I found a pretty diverse set of stations in this small part of the country alone. I am thrilled to listen to more of them!