Directions to the other END

Our mileage goal for today was to be 200 miles, but we only did about 30 miles today. We were in Canada this morning but only 3 miles from Madawaska, Maine. Once we crossed the border, we found Plourde's Harley Davidson Store. This store is located in the "most  northeastern corner of the United States." This is what is on the back of Jim's newest Harley shirt. The other three corners are: Key West, Florida, National City, California and Bellingham, Washington. From the store, we rode a few blocks to the Four Corner Park. Plourde's Harley Davidson had a extremely large stone marker. The base had the store's name and the Harley logo. There were flowers above this and wording that read,

"the most northeastern town of the

United States. One of the four corners."

The top of the marker had a map of the U.S. with a gold star identifying our location. From there we had about 20 miles or so to get to the beginning of Route 1 north.

 

The historic marker is in Fort Kent, Maine. It reads,

"This site marks the beginning of the U.S. Route 1

which ends in Key West, Florida. 2,446 Original Miles.

 U.S. Route 1 is the easternmost route of

main North-South United State Highway System"

 

As you know, we rode to Key West, Florida last year and saw that maker.                               The Southernmost.

 

We took pictures and was going to travel route 11 for a few hours and then 95 south. After maybe 15 minutes of riding, the heavens opened and the rains came. We turned around and found the Northern Door Inn and got a room. We are directly across from the Route 1 historic marker.  We did not go very far, however, we saw several landmarks today.