Day 2
Up and at it this morning to go to work...well not my work but Barb, Antonio, and Chris’ work. Seica is the company that my brother-in-law and sister created 32 years ago in Italy. Now they have additional offices in Germany, Mexico, China, France, and the United States which is the one we visited this morning. I struggle to understand exactly what they do but basically they create machines to test the circuit boards in other machines. A very cool product that they created that I do understand is the Smart Bench. It is a bench that provides Wi-Fi that you can connect your device to and listen to music. Every city should have some! After the tour and a little espresso, we packed into the Suburban to head out. Any guesses as to who got to ride in the back back? Lori and I are having flashbacks of our old station wagon trips but this time we have seatbelts!
We headed north out of Massachusetts, through a small portion of New Hampshire and into Maine, the Pine Tree State. And yes it is..there are many pine trees and just trees in general! It is hard for this Coloradoan to get used to not seeing anything along the highway except trees. I find myself looking at the navigation on my phone just to “see” beyond the trees. We took a side trip into Kennebunkport, Maine, the location of George Bush’s summer home. We didn’t get to see his house but we did find some seashells on the seashore. It was a gray and cool day- not quite the beach season here yet but also not crowded at all.
We decided to have lunch in Freeport, home of L.L. Bean. My father in law gave me this tip as he visited this flagship store many years ago. Of course it was fitting to dine at Linda Bean’s Maine Kitchen and Topside Tavern. We looked around the huge L.L. Bean complex after lunch but it would have taken all day to shop in all the buildings!
We continued on down the highway until we reached Bar Harbor which is more woodsy than I expected but is right next to Arcadia National Park so it makes sense. Our hotel is right on the beach but it was only in the mid-50’s today and windy so not too conducive to a stroll by the seaside. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little warmer as we continue on our Green Gables Trek.
Seica
Kennebunkport, Maine
Bar Harbor
Lobster x 2 for Antonio!
Cool what your sister and brother-in-law have created. While in the Navy, my Electronics Technicians had similar devices, used to test and locate faults in the various circuit boards our equipment used ... was pretty neat, made troubleshooting a breeze at it could certainly isolate the fault down to a small section of the card, and often down to a single component. That was 30 years ago ... I expect it is much better now. :)
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