Day 6
Goodbye Canada...hello potato vodka!
We said goodbye to Prince Edward Island today and ultimately Canada, on our 6+ hour road trip to Bangor, Maine. After we crossed the bridge into New Brunswick, we decided to stop at a potato distillery along the way. A very nice potato-farmer -turned-distiller gave us a short tour of the place. The idea of making vodka and gin out of potatoes evolved from wondering if there were other disposal options besides burying small potatoes that they couldn’t sell. It was very interesting to learn about how their three products, vodka, gin, and moonshine were made. Did you know that gin is flavored by infusing the alcohol with essential oils from plants? We got to taste their Blue Roof products at the end of the tour but vodka and gin in the morning is a little harsh! We gained an hour when we crossed the border into Maine and 20 degrees as well! It is nice to be in summertime weather again!
We ventured into downtown Bangor this evening to find a good restaurant.Bangor is an interesting place and reminds me a lot of Denver when it began the whole transformation to make it hip and modern. Bangor is not there yet but you can see it starting.
With any luck we will make it into Boston tomorrow, our last day before we leave the east coast.
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