Nov 30

Okay- I've arrived! My home base for the month-long adventure is in Kittery, Maine. It's an airbnb.com room (click here to see where I'm sleeping & doing laundry) ; a suite to myself with a lot of room and privacy. There's some plus and minuses to the room- I'll get into that later.

There's lots of great rooms on airbnb. This is actually the seventh stay I've had through the service. What cinched this choice, besides price and location, was an African drum waiting for me there, which just might become important given that drumming is one of my newest "recreate myself" hobbies. Anyway, if you think you might want to stay in an airbnb place, let me know. I get amazing bonuses for referring you! Well, okay, just $25 for my next stay. But still.

Aaaanyway, I'm just a very quick ride to my actual adventure target of Portsmouth, NH, a happening little city of  ~21000. It's close by, yes, but far enough from my room that I needed to set up additional home bases. Easy enough. I chose the sunny, quiet, loaded-with-free-parking Portsmouth Public Library for my almost daily afternoon orientation (yes, afternoon! not morning! I am on a soul-searching vacation, after all) and The Pressroom, a corner pub that I hoped to make my own personal version of Cheers!  Being a perfect pub it is the opposite of the library: kinda dark, noisy with live music every night (!) and lots of friendly conversation, (do the musicians hate that?) and unfortunately, parking meters to feed until 7:00pm.

Okay, so I'm here for a month, I've got my main home bases readied.  I'm ready to learn whatever it is I was drawn here to learn. And now ready to post all about it here so we can discuss what the hell I'm  doing in New Hampshire. Or Maine. Or Massachusetts even.  Collectively, this area is called "The Seacoast."

Hey! I'm living at the Seacoast! Is that cool or what?