The forecast for today was cloudy and rainy so we intentionally saved this trip for today. Today is our trip to L. L. Bean. Like so many people, we have bought things online from them or visited local retail stores, but we have never seen the place where it started 100 years ago. It was only about 30 miles from where we are staying and an easy drive on Interstate Hwy to Freeport. Once you get off the hwy, there are lots of signs to direct you to the “village”, and a village it is. There are multiple buildings housing their various products. There are separate buildings for Retail, Home, Fishing and Hunting, Bike Boat and Ski, and an Outlet Store within an entire outlet mall of other stores. Then of course, there is a Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Shop.
We walked the village and gave appropriate attention to several of the stores remembering we were still on our Advil regiment from the day before and retreated with our treasures, knowing we were leaving Maine having seen all we had on our “bucket list”.
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