Vacation - Part IV

August 7th -

I left Green Bay at 4:30 a.m. in order to get to Milwaukee, turn in my rental car and make it to the airport for my flight to Boston.

When I made my reservations for this trip, I reserved a rental car from Enterprise in downtown Milwaukee because it was about 2 1/2 times cheaper than renting at the airport. I didn't know how I was going to get downtown until I got to the Milwaukee airport. I asked at the information desk and the kind woman told me I could take the city bus (number 80) which stopped right outside the terminal I was in. It was a 1/2 hour bus ride into town and I got off only two short blocks from the rental office. I was quite proud and happy about how this turned out.

It was a good thing I left Green Bay at 4:30 a.m. because I got a little lost on the way back. Both cousins, Gordon and Sharon, had told me that there was an exit for Wisconsin Ave from I-43. That wasn't so.....therefore I went too far. After finally getting off, turning around and then taking the wrong fork in the road on the way back, I did manage to make it back to the rental office right at 7:30 a.m. Enterprise took me back to the bus stop even though it was only two blocks! I managed to get on the right bus and got back to the airport by 8:30 for my 10:10 flight to Boston.

Once in Boston I again took public transportation, in this case the subway, to get to the Amtrak station to board the train to Maine. It was so easy. Within an hour after getting off the plane I was at the train depot. I hadn't known when I booked the trip just how much time it would take to get there, so I gave myself plenty of time. Therefore I had a three hour wait at the train depot before my train left for Maine.

I was met at the station in Saco by my friend Liz who is working at a Unitarian camp near there. We went out to eat dinner and caught up on each others lives since we last saw each other two years ago at Holden. I am staying at the camp/conference center where she is working for the summer.