Riding the Interstates was a revalation, <br />The construction sites were prevalent; <br />This is certainly one damn big nation, <br />And getting there fast and safe is revalent. <br /> <br />Through New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma, <br />Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and Wesr Va.; <br />I got the travel bug and was anxious to roma, <br />I drove 900 miles before I said, I surrender. <br /> <br />Next day, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, <br />Then Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont; <br />Nine hundred more miles and I felt like a dork, <br />I said to myself, Damn, this is one long jaunt! <br /> <br />Two thousand, seven hundred miles, to see a friend, <br />Up by the Canadian border, that's where he was; <br />By then I thought the road would never, ever end; <br />I had the road willies and a diffrent kind of buzz. <br /> <br />Two days I rested, then I had to leave and move along, <br />Just three and a half hours from there to Bethel, Maine; <br />The Sunday River Resort was my destination's song, <br />I think that next time I just might take the Amtrak train. <br /> <br />There wasn't any moose around, at least not to be seen, <br />But the scenery was lovely, beautiful and simply grand; <br />And there were a lot of advertisements reading LL Bean, <br />I even got to Arcadia National Park and saw Atlantic's sand! <br /> <br />A friend and me went up Mt. Washington by auto road, <br />They have the worst weather in the world, or so I'm told; <br />I crept up in low gear and moved slow as a damn toad <br />It was 70 in the valley and 35 degrees on top and cold. <br /> <br />Coming back, I went through, Ohio, Inidiana, Ill. and Mo., <br />It was cooler and the interstates were smooth and fast; <br />I would of stayed longer, but did not have the dough, <br />But then again, nothing good (or bad) does ever last. <br /> <br />I'm glad to be back home again, in sunny Arizona, <br />The trip was long and I traveled much too quick; <br />But the memories I have will stay as long as I'm gonna, <br />As long as my mind, as a candle, keeps it's wick.<br /><br />david lessard<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/maine-trip/
