August 19
Saturday started gloomy, and I wanted to try Congdon’s Douhnuts for breakfast, and it seemed a perfect day to do it. Started as homemade doughnuts in 1945, it has grown and expanded to a restaurant and bakery of the most delicious home made doughnuts and pastries, and some good breakfast! Clem had their Honey Bun French Toast, which was their own gigantic sweet roll, split and made into french toast. It was really good....I had a BITE! Clem nearly ate the whole thing! Plus a doughnut! I had a low carb omelet......with my doughnut! Not usually much of a doughnut fan, these were seriously delicious! And substantial, not those light, airy things, and I was stuffed well past lunch time!
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| Giant home made cinnamon roll made into french toast! |
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| Home made....never had such a good bavarian donut! |
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| huge lines, but plenty of staff to keep them moving! |
We set out for Ogunquit, and the Marginal Way, which is a cliffside walk along the ocean, where I figured we could get some exercise and walk off breakfast. We walked all the way to Perkins Cove, browsed some of the shops, sat and enjoyed the water for a while, then headed back, enjoying the view, and a couple of the strategically placed benches where one can relax and enjoy.
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| This would be my choice for a house there! |
Having started early, and being our last day, we decided to seek out the Trolley Museum in Kennebunk, so sat through the clogged traffic that is Route 1, and found an amazing number of trolley’s and old buses and some train cars, in various states, scattered all about the property, in addition to the station gift shop and huge barns which held those that had been beautifully refurbished. Three were sitting outside, ready to take riders to the other side of the property, with the motorman explaining the history and operations along the 100 year old stretch of track. It was interesting to learn that the trolley companies built amusement parks at their stops, making use of the electricity there, and 11 of those parks remain......minus the trolleys! The sun came out while we were there, and we enjoyed roaming around the cars, and climbing aboard to inspect the interiors where allowed. Quite a collection!
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| The seat backs flipped around so you could face the other end of the car, and there were controls on that end as well, to go in the other direction! |
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| Clem had a few more questions for the motorman! |
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| a very ornate trolley from Manchester, NH |
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| This was used to transfer prisoners! Ran on wheels or track! |
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Pretty classy transportation, car 1030!
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One of the many, many buses, I liked this one because it was older and more unique.
 The most bizarre aspect of the place, this old elevated rail station was acquired from Boston, and moved by barge and flatbed, at a tremendous cost, and then it would not fit under overpasses on its way, and they cut the top off!! Now they don't have a place for it, after all of that, and want to sell it, so it sits among the weeds! I think many of the busses they have collected, and continue to collect, may suffer the same fate.
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The most bizarre aspect of the place, this old elevated rail station was acquired from Boston, and moved by barge and flatbed, at a tremendous cost, and then it would not fit under overpasses on its way, and they cut the top off!! Now they don't have a place for it, after all of that, and want to sell it, so it sits among the weeds! I think many of the busses they have collected, and continue to collect, may suffer the same fate. 
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