{"id":1872,"date":"2010-06-03T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T01:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:44:14","slug":"kennebunk-to-schenectady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/kennebunk-to-schenectady\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennebunk to Schenectady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wednesday, May 5 <\/em><em> &#8211; Day 12: Kennebunk, Maine north to Falmouth, Maine; Falmouth southeast to Schenectady, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So today we got fuel for the first time since leaving San Diego. Read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eric&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s cottage in Kennebunk, Maine<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2485-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2485-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Downtown Kennebunkport, Maine <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2529-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2529-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former US President George HW Bush&#8217;s estate in Kennebunkport.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2547-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2547-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since we had three quarters of a tank of fuel left, we decided to head north on route one for a while. We drove through several small towns (some more scenic than others) before getting to Portland, Maine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2623-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2623-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Portland, we turned off route one and took some other roads north to Presumpscot Falls in Falmouth, Maine before we turned around. We still had half a tank of fuel left and probably could have made it to the Canadian border, but we were out of time. As an FYI, the dam has been removed, so the waterfalls are gone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2639-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2639-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hopped onto Interstate 95 and headed south to Interstate 495. We made our first fuel stop in Tewksbury, Massachutses. We had started with a total of 88.9 gallons of fuel (14.5 gallons in the tank, one 5 gallon container and thirteen 5.3 gallon containers) in the car. We did 3,586 miles in total and still had a quarter of a tank left!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2672-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2672-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2682-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2682-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We got some dinner, then continued south on I-495 to the I-90 east. We didn&#8217;t make any more stops until we got to our hotel. Here is a shot of the sunset as we were driving. We are not sure where it was exactly, but in New York near the Adirondack Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2698-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2698-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stayed at the English Garden B &amp; B in the historic part of Schenectady, New York<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_2716-Small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2716-Small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This is Part 11 of the Passage Across America series. Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/brookfield-to-kennebunk\/\">Part 10 here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/joplin-to-st-louis\/\">\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/schenectady-to-chicago\/\">Part 12 here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, May 5 &#8211; Day 12: Kennebunk, Maine north to Falmouth, Maine; Falmouth southeast to Schenectady, New York So today we got fuel for the first time since leaving San Diego. Read on&#8230; Eric&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s cottage in Kennebunk, Maine Downtown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/kennebunk-to-schenectady\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,415,2,397],"tags":[264,255,256,258,261,262,263,260,265],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-new-york","category-northamerica","category-united-states","tag-falmouth","tag-kennebunk","tag-maine","tag-massachutses","tag-new-york","tag-portland","tag-presumpscot-falls","tag-schenectady","tag-tewksbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}