Ten Years of Retirement - Part 4 of 4

We’ve been retired for 10 years!  This is a look back at our second year of retirement.

2011 Continued

July - August

We spent our last two months at Aroostook doing as much sightseeing as we could.  We didn’t think we would be back in this area again.

The park had kayaks we could use and we spent several evenings on Echo Lake.

There was a lot of fishing for hornpout on the lake also.

We cleaned sites, cleared trails and did a lot more fishing for hornpout.

Texas friends Sharon and Rick visited us and we showed them Quaddy Head Lighthouse, Acadia, Petit Manan, and went on a puffun boat trip.

We drove over to Canada several times. 

Grand Falls, New Brunswick

 Hartland potato chip factory tour

Hartland Bridge.

Longest covered bridge in the world.

A trip to Campobello Island with fellow Santa Ana NWR volunteers Carolyn and Wally was a lot of fun.

FDR's Cottage

Schoodic peninsula and a visit to Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery with fellow Santa Ana NWR volunteers Lynn and Jane led us to two years volunteering at Green Lake NFH.

Whale watching, chocolate factories and hot air balloons completed our time here in Maine.

Finback whale

Monica's Choclates

We drove from Presque Isle, Maine to Elgin, Texas in four days.  There was heavy flooding in the North/East and horrible wildfires in Texas.

September - December

We stayed in our RV during September while friends Kathy and Jan moved into our house after their house was destroyed in the Bastrop fire.

In October we were back at LBJ State Park for our second year of volunteering.  I worked in the gift shop while Mark was back at the farm.

This year was just as much fun as the year before.  We helped with all the Christmas decorations and the lighting of the Christmas tree.

On December 28th we picked up our new RV.

Our route from Texas to Maine.

I had planned to do a blog for each year of retirement but - if you blog, you understand - writing a blog takes up an enormous amount of time.  Writing ten blogs spanning over ten years was just too overwhelming.  We started blogging when we retired so each year of our travels is here, they are just spread out through many blogs instead of condensed into a couple.

It sure is fun looking at old pictures and reading our old blogs.  We have seen some wonderful places, and have had some amazing experiences traveling the US, Canada and Central America these past ten years.

There are more adventures to come in the next 10 (or more) years.

Stay tuned!