Drove off to Maine

We have not been idle here in Maine. After all, the whole point of having a nice car is to take nice trips!

Today, besides doing a nice hike, we replicated a picture we took with another interesting coupe some years ago. My best guess right now is that the original was in October 2011, but it might have been earlier.

Top of Cadillac Mt, Acadia National Park.



I grabbed a buy walking by and asked "Can I prevail upon you to take our picture? I'd like to get the two of us and the car and the background." Sharon said "We're trying to replicate a picture we took many years ago."

The guy said "Sure", glanced at the car and said "Life's been good, I see." I told him "Yeah, it has!"

The view out the co-pilot's side of the windshield this morning:

Talking about driving is like singing about dancing, it may be entertaining but it ain't quite the same. Well, I dance about as well as a tree stump but I can sing, so I'll have to just talk. Fortunately I can drive and have a great car to dance with!

We just returned from our vacation in Maine. 285 miles today along a back-road route, Ellsworth to Belfast to Augusta instead of Rt 1A to Bangor, and then I-95 home. It was spectacular. Of course the car is superb, as is to be expected. Very little slowpoke traffic. Today saw 5hrs5min (of course not 2hrs5min) driving time, 33.6mpg (with those little US gallons), and a few stops. Mostly I kept to (ahem) near legal speeds. (You can believe what you wish. I merely state what I assert to be true. If called to testify I will deny all of it, of course.) Awesome scenery.

Total trip mileage 941, some on back roads, some on Acadia National Park's Park Loop Road. Packing for a 12 day trip in a 718 Cayman can be a challenge. Even when staying in a small, or rather, Small with uppercase S cabin, if you go hiking every day you need lots of food, clothes, food, kitchen stuff, and did I mention food? For next year's trip we already have lists of stuff Not to take. The little cubbyholes under the rear quarter-panel windows came in handy.

A few impressions of the car - wonderfully comfortable. Plenty of power for going up the incessant hills on the Maine coast. Almost all of today's drive was run in non-sport mode. Had a few instances of passing trucks in a "Slower Traffic Keep Right" zone - punch the right foot, feel the car jump forward, watch the truck fade away in the mirror. Never ever did it feel like it couldn't go faster uphill, but there was no need to. If anyone asks, the base model has gobs of power. It did want to run 7th gear in a few places where I felt 6th would be better, so I just paddled it down as seemed appropriate. On some road surfaces the tires noise was noticeable but didn't prevent us from listening to recordings of BBC productions of Sherlock Holmes episodes on the ride home. We never encountered road surface that threatened the 20" wheels, and the turning precision on Mt Desert Island's back roads was superb.

It was a magical trip, made even better by a magical P-car.