Thursday, October 4, 2007

DeLorme, the gull and the lighthouses








Our first stop today was at the headquarters of the DeLorme Map Co., where they have what has to be the world's largest globe, rotating and all. It measures over forty-one feet in diameter and weighs in at nearly three tons. What Clara and I found on looking at it from all angles was that we didn't know nearly enough about world geography to identify which country that strange shape really was . . . Here's North America – find yourself . . .

That was so much work looking at that globe that we had to stop for lunch at what has to be the most spectacular setting for a lunch stop. Then, just as we were setting down, a gull turned thief and stole some of Clara's fried clams right off her plate!

While sitting there, I saw a lobster boat collecting his pots – I think that those are his buoys on the back of his boat.

Just across the street was a lighthouse, curiously named the "Two Lighthouses Lighthouse." The other one, not that far away, is perhaps the most well known of all of Maine's lighthouses, the Portland Head Lighthouse.

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