The Night Shift

 Day 30 - Saturday, August 13, 2022

Duval's RV Park, Wells, Maine

The main purpose of the Maine Odyssey trip is to visit Patrice and Neel in Boston, and we must admit that a secondary reason is to escape the triple digit summer temperatures in the Houston area.  Then we realized that a bonus is that we could be in North Carolina after the trip to Boston to visit another son-in-law.

Last weekend Patrice and Neel came to visit us at Duval's RV Park, and they have invited us to spend this weekend with them in Boston.  So we leave Wells, Maine, around mid-morning and arrive in Boston just in time for lunch.  The plan calls for them to take us to some of their favorite restaurants.

But first we do some important shopping -- yes they have a Total Wine & More -- so we pick up some 'supplies' to bring home.

Lunch is at Night Shift Brewing, which is a local craft brewery featuring a sprawling taproom with communinal tables and a variety of beer.  Neel introduces us to their favorite brand of craft beer, Santilli, and it is interesting that the brewery is in the nearby town of Everett on Santilli Highway.  I find a monument honoring Lt. Alexander Santilli of U.S. Marine Corp, who was killed in action in WW II on the island of Saipan on July 8, 1944.   He had been awarded the Silver Star on June 22, 1944.

A cooler at the end of the bar displays new releases, lots of Santilli and some hard seltzer, named HOOT.  Oh, I get it -- the logo of Santilli is an owl, and is on all the glasses of draft beer.

On the patio outside we see that it is family friendly with games to play and leashed dogs allowed.   This one checks for spilled crumbs.

I am pleased to see umbrellas over each table, and happy that it is a sunny day.  

There is a food truck at one end of the patio making Stuffed Sopapillas.  "What?" we say, "We know sopapillas as stuffed with deserts."  Actually the menu does have an item of Ice Cream Stuffed Sopapilla.  Everything looks good, including steak or fish or chicken, but I choose PORK AL PASTOR --Pineapple and chipotle marinated pork/pineapple pico/hatch green chile aioli slaw/a squeeze of lime/stuffed in a handmade sopapilla pocket.

I love the mural, and ask to be photographed in front of it.

Note the purple wrist band on Herb's arm -- yes, we were carded, although they didn't have to check our IDs.

Willie of Sweet Georgia Brown,

   and of Walldog and Willie

   Saturday, August 13, 2022