Originally Posted by
Robert Fulman
Today was Veterans' Day, so the kids were off school. Also, there was very little traffic through Boston. So we packed up the Minivan and made the drive up to Portland. We left a little late and had a GPS snafu (it's never a good sign when Garmin tells you to wait for a ferry), so we didn't get to the bookstore until about 10. We missed out on tickets, but it wasn't really a big deal. Would have been nice, but I assumed that I would have needed to be there much earlier to guarantee tickets. I did get to see a woman yelling at the store manager about the whole three ticket thing and that was worth the price of admission by itself. I bought a copy of Revival, and I'll probably start reading it tomorrow. We hung around Portland for a few hours and then meandered our way back down the coast, stopping off at the beach in Ogunquit (we vacation there most summers). The traffic home was equally light in the afternoon. Overall, it was a good day. Now that I think about it, the traffic won't be nearly as light on Monday, so the trip back up there probably would have been at least three hours.