Saturday I decided to take the motorcycle up to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. I decided to go Saturday since it was the middle of the July 4th holiday weekend, and traffic was likely to be less. I decided to take the motorcycle to see if I could handle doing a longer trip. The plan was to take I-95 up, in order to get there as soon as possible, and then take Route 1 a little of the way back. It wasn’t the best trip for a motorcycle, but it was long, but not too long. As it happens, they were celebrating their 86th birthday on Saturday.

This was my second trip to Seashore; I’d gone up Labor Day Weekend of 2004 with Mum tagging along. It’s of particular interest to me because a lot of Boston transit history is there; whenever the MBTA retires a fleet, they generally donate a unit or two to the museum. So they have an original 1924 East Boston Rapid transit car, a 1950’s Orange Line train, a 1963 Red Line train, and Tower C and Northampton Station from the Boston Elevated, a Boeing Light Rail Vehicle, as well as a number of restored trolleys from the early part of the 20th Century from all over the country.