From Glen: Trip to Maine, Part 1

One of the nice things that has came out of my new job with IWF is that I have had the chance to travel alot over the past six months or so. I've been somewhere out of Tennessee at least once a month since March. I'm not quite sure how Donna feels about my being gone - probably quite happy to have the apartment to herself for a little bit.

In July of this year, Donna got to go with me up to Maine. IWF is headquartered in Portland, ME and I had to go up for a meeting with the boss and to make sure everybody else remembered what I looked like. Donna took time off of work to go with me. While I was busy being a worker bee, she was playing tourist and wandering the town. She saw more of Portland during the couple of days we spent there than I have in my two visits.

Besides work, though, we got to be tourists for the weekend. You guys already know that Donna and I are lighthouse hounds. If we're near a light of note, we have to go see it. And Maine.... Maine is full of lighthouses.

The first lighthouse that we went to see was the Portland Head Light. This is one of the most photographed lighthouses in America. I have to say that it is very picturesque, with a setting that is the quintessential Maine image - right on the coast, near craggy rocks, overlooking Casco Bay.

When Donna and I were there, the sky was blue and the sun was shining over the land but out on the water there was low fog. From Portland Head you can look out over the bay and see the Ram Island Ledge Light which is completely surrounded by water at high tide. As you can tell from the picture, it was sort of a haunting scene with this lone lighthouse emerging from the fog. After the fog lifted, it became less Hitchcockesque, but beautiful nonetheless.