Destination Bangor, Maine

Left Keene, N.H., at 10:30 Sunday morning saying goodbye to our kind hosts. Gas up in Keene at $9.00. Listening to "Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor and guest Doc Watson. In Concord, N.H., a good ol' boy in a Dodge is splitting his sides and pointing at the smart car. Who wins at the pumps?
We stop by the NASCAR track at Loudun but are shooed away by a lady at the booth who has obviously never been to charm school. We try NASCAR radio to listen to the Pocono 500 but the station is fighting with French radio from Montreal. Lunch at "Fully Brewed and Half Baked" in Lincoln. Then to Mount Washington to see the cog railway which dates back to 1869. It is rainy and cloudy so we pass on a trip to the top, but still worth the trip to see the behemoth steaming out of sight up an average grade of 25%, max 37.41%. We take gas at Twin Mountain, $2.89 per US gallon, the best price so far. Quick stop at The Gorham Historic Railway Museum, then Rumford Falls which has a "muffler man" and spectacular falls in town.
Overnight cabin at KOA on Highway 2 in Canaan, Maine. $5 discount as to my surprise my membership is still valid. Early start next morning and splendid breakfast at Dysart's Truckstop outside Bangor - coffee jug on the table and "have you had enough to eat honey?" Protracted search for Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor - drove right past it without noticing - worth the wait. Now in Houlton, near the Canadian border, and looking forward to lunch at Tim Horton's.