Blueberry Capital of the World

07/16/09 ~ Got up at around 7 and hit the road, bound for Cherryfield, the last place we would stay, and last real day on the bike trip before our final destination of Lubec. In Cherryfield, a town 50 miles away, we had another internet hook up through couchsurfing, who was a great guy named Ben, the local blueberry farmer. We set forth towards his place, stopping by at a grocery store to eat a dozen donuts for breakfast. We arrived there at about 11:00 in the morning, and Ben was nowhere to be found. We walked ourselves inside, and started looking around his house to see if anyone was home there. Suddenly, two young girls about 20 years old came out of the one of the rooms, sort of confused as to who we were. We introduced ourselves, and said we were some couchsurfers, and soon discovered that these two girls were some other couchsurfers as well. Instant connections are always great. Apparently they’ve just been driving all around the country for the past 8 weeks in their car camping out. They then found Ben, and had been staying there at his place for the past week just because they simply “loved it so much here.” We ended up hanging out and talking with them for the afternoon until Ben came home later on. It was great talking to them and sharing some great stories from both our trips, and we finally got to actually hang out with some girls for once as well, that never happens! And I don’t even think we were that socially awkward about it either, a sure double bonus, and a great last day. 
The two girls and us then ended up cooking up a big meal that night of Beef Stroganoff and Spaghetti. We then concluded the night hearing some pretty crazy stories from the man himself, Ben.and playing a little bit of chess as well. Ben sure was quite the Chess master, although we cannot fail to mention Seth did beat him on the first try… but the Ben beat him the second game. We could not have asked for better last day on the bike trip with such great and interesting people. Tomorrow we head for Lubec, the easternmost point of the United States, and Canadian border.