Bangor, Maine

We was on our way somewhere, I forget where, but we went through this town called Bangor, Maine, and we discovered a cool little museum that was all filled up with all kinds of cool old trucks and cars and wagons, and all kinds of other reel old transportation things. It was jest too cool to show enough pitchers, so you ken jest click below to go to their website.

Cole Museum Website

Boothbay Harbor, Maine

This town is the home of the famous Boothbay Harbor Pedestrian Bridge, which is the most photographed bridge in the area, cuz it's the only bridge around the area.  It connects one side of the harbor to the other side.  Don't forget to click on that pitcher to see it bigger.  If you ever get to Boothbay Harbor, be sure to check it out.  Jest tell the guy at the parking lot that we only jest parked there fer a half hour, so he ken give you the other half hour that he still owes us.

I think we must have missed out on a train in the area cuz none of us remember anything about the train that it shows on the Boothbay Harbor website, so if you're curious, you ken jest click on either or both of the click things below to see more...but only click on one of them at a time or your computer will get whacked out!

Boothbay Harbor Train 

Boothbay Harbor Information 

Boston, Massachusetts

We already knew that the traffic in Boston is always a reel mess, so we jest went right away to a motel away from the downtown area, and then we only jest got lost fer a couple of hours, cuz all those streets go in circles and end up back where you jest came from.  (That's why the British went back to England way back when they was trying to get America back from whoever those guys were that they thought had stolt it from them.  They also got reel lost).  Lucky fer us, that motel was jest a short distance from a parking gerage where the subway starts out from, so that's how the old folks and Sniffy went into downtown Boston and took a tour bus ride and also a tour boat ride.  Sniffy said that the bus driver also got reel lost.  Even the pigeons and other birds get reel lost there.  You ken tell by the pitcher at right that even the boat drivers get lost there.

Sniffy got to eat part of a cheeseburger and some fries, then sit back and watch some of the people go by and wave at him.

The pitcher at the right shows some famous school building that is under construction.  It looks like some of the kids were helping to build it or else they also don't use no levels in Boston either.  Or maybe that lost bus driver backed into it and bent those crooked things.

Another exciting thing was we learned that Boston was the birthplace of some nother famous guy whose name I forgot, but he was the guy that invented the English Turkey Leg Frills...you know, those cute little booties that perfessional turkey cookers always put on the end of the turkey legs after they get done cooking it.  They only make one size of them booties, cuz if you get a turkey that has reel fat leg bones, you ken jest cut the side of them frills a little bit and let them stretch over the fat bone and then fasten it in place with one of them plastic tying things that lektricshions use to fasten wires together so they don't fall down and make somebuddy trip and end up looking like that turkey.

What REALLY Happened in Boston Who knows?  After all, it IS Boston, Massachusetts. Sniffy DID get to go along and get his picture taken on a bench. That's him, guarding the video camera and the bag containing maps and a bottle of water.

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

After a 2 mile long traffic jam that was caused by the traffic circle next to the Sagamore Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal, we finally got to a motel.  On the way to the motel, which was in Sandwich, Massachusetts, we got hungry and decided to get some lunch.  Guess what!  The only thing we could find to eat in Sandwich, Masachusetts was a couple of sandwiches!  So that's where we ate lunch, at a delicatessen in Sandwich.

Maybe the next time we'll spend the night in Chicken Fried Steak, Massachusetts, cuz that's what we kinda wanted to eat.

The next day the old folks took a bike ride along the Cape Cod Canal, which runs uphill in both directions, for a distance of about 6 miles.  The cool bridge will look better if you click your mouse thingy on it to make it get bigger.  That was a different bridge than the one we came in on, and it is named the Bourne Bridge.

We discovered an IHOP Restaurant on our side of another traffic circle next to the Bourne Bridge, so we got a reel good meal there.  Then we had to race out into that traffic circle and race around 8 or 7 times to figure which street to get off at to get back to our motel!  We had to take that Bourne Bridge in the morning to get out of there, but we jest had to race across one corner cuz the road out was the next one past the one we was driving on, so Jim jest blasted through and we didn't get to go around and around and around and around...!

For more information you ken jest click your mouse thingy below:

Cape Cod Canal Bike Path Information   

We finally got to a motel in New Jersey, and some of the guys decided to jest look out the window of the motel, like we’re so good at, but Sniffy and I decided to go along into New York City with the old folks, so all of us caught the regular bus at the bus stop across the street from the motel.  Sniffy and I hid in a cloth bag with the maps and a bottle of water in case anybuddy got thirsty.  That way we din’t need to buy no tickets fer us guys.

The 10 minute bus ride through the Lincoln Tunnel took about 45 minutes cuz every bus in town was out there bringing in other people like us that decided to also go into New York City fer the day.  I think a lot of those other people also had their stuffed animals like us hide in bags and little suitcases, so they wouldn’t have to buy them a ticket either.  Since the bus got late cuz of all the traffic, everybuddy’s cell phones except ours kept going off, and it almost sounded like music since each phone seemed to play a little song instead of ringing a bell like a reel phone.

Well, we finally got to the Port Authority Bus Station in New York City, and we went and got a ticket to ride on one of those big buses like they use in England, except that it didn't have no roof on top.  When we was going through the Lincoln tunnel in the other bus we seen one of these buses with the second story going through that tunnel next to us, and we figgered that the roof got tore off cuz it was just as tall as that tunnel.  We went up into the attic of the bus so we could see out and check out all the tall buildings. It’s probably better that way, cuz without that roof we could see everything without hanging out the window.

That bus took us all over the place, and boy! There was a lot of traffic there, so I’m glad we din’t decide to go out on our own and walk around, cuz cars and people and busses was all fighting over whose turn it was to use the street, and nobody wanted to take turns.

After a while I could see the Empire State Building, and that is my favorite thing to see, so my tail started wagging so fast I fell out of the bag and wound up on the floor and almost got stuck in some chewing gum.  The bus pulled up and stopped at that building to let some people get off so they could check it our fer reel.  The bus was so close that I was able to actually lean out and touch the roof thing that they put there so when people dump their trash out the window it don’t land on anybuddy that’s walking down there, cuz some people throw their left over coffee in the trash and that might land on somebuddy and make them get all sticky.  Fer those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, I have seen on TV that every time they have a parade in New York City, everybuddy takes that opportunity to throw their trash out the window and into the street.  That way the cleanup guys can bring big trucks and clean it all up at the same time.

Anyway, I am the only one of us guys that ever touched the Empire State Building in person, so I’m famous in our family.

Hiram has sat on the Brooklyn Bridge, so that’s what he’s famous for.  That bridge is his favorite thing about New York City.

Anyway, us little guys can jest scoot around in that bus without anybuddy even looking down at us, cuz they’re all looking up at the tall buildings.  There was a hole in the side of the bus that we could look out of and that was reel cool, cuz we seen a couple of bums digging through a trash can looking fer neat things to put into their grocery cart that had garbage bags hanging from it and all sorts of cool other things filling up the rest of it.

Right under the seat in front of where the old folks was sitting, next to the hole we was looking out of, there was a couple of wires hanging down, and when I touched one of them to the side of the bus, a little light near the floor came on, so I tried touching them together, and it made the bus horn blow, so we had a lot of fun blowing the horn at cars and walking people who din’t want to get out of the way of the bus.  We sure did get some people to scoot, and one guy dropped his cell phone, and then the bus ran over it, and the guy was reel mad at the bus.

The guy with the microphone who was telling us all about those tall buildings kept telling the bus driver to quit blowing the horn so much, and he din’t believe that the driver wasn’t doing nothing, so me and Sniffy was reely having a good time, and that is still our little sekert.

That was about it fer that day.  We was so tired after all that that we jest stayed put in that bag and finally got back to the motel in time fer dinner.

You ken click your mouse thingy below for more information on riding that bus.  Us guys reely recommend it if you ever get to New York City.  If you're going to go to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, though, don't bother clicking on nothing, cuz they probably don't have no bus tours there.

New York Grayline Bus Tour Information  

If you check out that bus website don't tell nobuddy that I was the one who was messing with that horn, cuz there's no reason that they need to know that!  Oh, yeah, Grayline isn't the only bus tour there, but it's the only name I remember.

The next day, the old folks decided to go to New York City again, but I was still tired out, so that time Leroy and Sniffy decided to go, since Hiram had already been there once when he got to sit on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The old folks took the same bus, and it still got stuck in traffic again, but Jim took a video of the whole trip into town, and it was cool to be able to see all that traffic from the comfort of the couch at home, so that was a good idea that he did.

Then they got a couple of subway tickets, with Leroy and Sniffy still hiding in that bag, so they din’t need no tickets, of course.  They took that subway train out to Brooklyn Heights and got out and walked to the Brooklyn Bridge and walked across it and that time Leroy and Sniffy got to sit on the bench and get their pitchers took, so now they’re also famous jest like Hiram.  Then they got into another subway train and took it back to Brooklyn and went way far out to the Zoo, but it was so hot that they jest ate lunch at Wendy’s and got on another subway train and went back across the Manhattan Bridge and got off near the bus station and caught a bus back to the motel.  Oh, yeah, Sniffy said that he saw a reel wild rat in that subway station, but New York is too big of a city to have any reel rats, so us guys don’t reely believe him about that story.

For a lot of reely cool information about the New York City Subways, jest click your mouse thingy on the line below. 

New York Subway Website

If you want to get more information about the Brooklyn Bridge, you ken jest click your mouse thingy below: 

Brooklyn Bridge Information Website 

Piece of the Brooklyn Bridge!

Sniffy and I was trotting along a big street with lots of traffic in the streets and also a couple of cars driving on the sidewalk cuz the pedestrians was walking in the street, and this guy yelled, “Hey, Mac, c’mere.”

We went to see what he wanted, and he had this cool looking rock that he said was a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge that got broke off when they was building it back in 1882.  He said that a horse was pulling a wagon and he got scared of something and jumped a little and one of those big rock blocks fell off the wagon and the corner cracked.

After they finished building the bridge, about a hundred years later, the guy and his friend was playing basketball near the bottom of the bridge and the ball hit the block and the corner fell off and they saved it, thinking somebuddy might jest want such a rock cuz of its hysterical importance.

He said they needed some money to buy lunch, and he would let me have that piece of the Brooklyn Bridge fer jest 10 bucks.  I knew I had 4 bucks plus some pennies back at home, so I offered him 4 bucks plus a penny that I found along the sidewalk that morning, and he took it, so I had to borrow that cash from the old folks and also give him the penny, that was a little scratched up from being on the sidewalk.

I’m not sure zaktly where that rock corner came from, cuz there was a lot of broken corners on the Brooklyn Bridge, but I think it came from where it seems to fit in the picture, so we’ll be putting it in a safe place next to the prehistoric rock we found in the back yard a few years ago.  Maybe someday we ken make a museum after we get some more hysterical stuff.

We also heard that some nother feller was selling some nails that fell out of the Empire State Building, but we never got to find him.  If you need some more information about the Empire State Building, you ken jest click your mouse thingy below:

Empire State Building Information 

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