Update.
Just a quick update to let people know that for the past week I am being taken good care of by many of the members of the Maine Outdoor Adventure Club. MOAC.
I have gotten so far behind in this blog and feel guilty I haven’t had a chance to post just how wonderful these people are.
It all began when Sandie and Brendan read my Bangor News interview on Christmas Eve. Well they sent me an invite to stay with them when I got to their town Hope. First they contacted Jim and Anne of Winterport to arrange for me to stay with them a night.
Thanks Jim and Anne of Winterport.
That Monday sure was pretty stormy. A heavy overnight falling of snow and a blizzard greeted me on the road.
Setting out from Jim and Anne's house in the blizzard.
I got stopped by a cop after an hour. At first I got the impression he wanted me off the road. Then when I showed him documentation of the expedition he saw it was not just a regular Sunday morning jog in the park.
” I would rather you were not on the road but I cant pull you off. ” He said.
That seemed like a 180 to me if ever I heard one but I was not arguing!
Later that day I was to hear that I was being tracked on the police scanners all day!
The snow ploughs were out all day doing a great job. I was of course confined to the hard shoulder and had to deal with about 2 inches of snow or sometimes slush from the snow plough.
I stopped in a service station and didn’t realise I was being filmed when answering someones questions…Later those two videos were to end up on Utube!
Then I went on towards the town of Hope. I got as far as Durham state park when Brendan came to commute me back and forward from my finish locations to his home. Many years ago he had cycled across the USA.
Sandie and Brendan offered me 2 nights in their lovely.
Brendan, Sandie and Russ had many contacts from the Maine Outdoor Adventure Club that helpd me out so much.
The house was like a sauna as it was heated by 2 wood-burning stoves with logs from their land. The entire house was powered by solar power and water came from a well on their 170 acre property.
Sandie had organised another night for me in a town called Bath. It was a long day and night time had fallen as I ran into town. My host Ken had stopped on the road a couple of times. I took advantage and unloaded some of Nirvanas baggage.
Ken helped me and put me up for the night in Bath.
Ken came out to escort me up the hill to his beautiful house with views of a nice lake. In his garage he had a beautiful blue BMW sports car which he bought for only about 7,000 euro. It was so beautiful I was afraid Nirvana would roll into it!
After another wonderful shower and they are all wonderful! Ken said we had steak 
for dinner as he noticed anytime the word steak is mentioned on my blog it is followed by a smiley! Nice to know a new follower has gone through so much blog. Next day I am sitting at Becky and Tracys table in Yarmouth making a call to Alex and Denis who have offered to put me up for New Years eve and new Years night.
My head is spinning and I geniunly have trouble remembering where my room is; upstairs or downstairs, whose house I am in and who i am talking to so incredible has the hospitality of these great outdoors people of MOAC.
So Becky tells me she had an ice cream stall in the summer and still has some in a huge freezer. She places what looks like a 5 gallon tub on the table and asks me if I have enough!
And so onto Yarmouth. Becky and Tracy are not sure if they have enough ice cream in the house for me
Next day I have to run through Portland with great difficulty as it is a difficult city to find my way around due to sections of the highway that are closed to pedestrians.
I had made arrangements with the Portland Running club to meet me at Starbucks in Falmouth the next day at 11.00am. They did not show.
So I ran towards Portland myself.. Hustling runners and cyclists for directions….If anyone knew the way around the closed to pedestrians section of highway they would. I took about 3 hours to get from one side to the other. Light was fading.. I would have to move fast. It was New Years eve. I ran about 45km/ 28 miles today.
Ring out the old…. ring in the new tomorrow..
December 31st, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Tony,
happy new year to you. Guess its gonna be your year.
Lindie did a nice piece on you in the Evening Herald. Mostly a lift from your blog plus.
cheers
Ray
December 31st, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Thanks for this Ray! Yes a nice piece by Lindie
Thanks Lindie. Happy Near year to you and all at MSB. Tony. Here is link to Lindie’s piece:
http://www.herald.ie/sport/other-sports/tony-hits-america-on-epic-world-jog-2478680.html
December 31st, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Hi Tony,
Happy and safe travels for 2011
Very good article in the Herald by Lindie plus a picture. Happy New Year Tony and hope that 2011 will continue to bring you the same happy travels that 2010 has given you. Take care and enjoy your celebrations, Mam, Ann, John, Gary, Serena, Mark
December 31st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Happy New Year Tony. Be safe and well.
December 31st, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Happy New Year Tony.
December 31st, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Happy New Year to all my supporters, sponsors, followers and those that have taken me into their home and treated me like their son. Also to all those that are offering help and support in the future. I hope 2011 will be your year
Thanks so much to all of you my great friends! Tony
January 1st, 2011 at 4:11 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR TONY!!!!!
great to see your meeting some great hospitality along the way
take care
stewart and bernie
January 1st, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Hi Tony,
We are following your progress closely and we see you are doing so well. We were thinking of you on New Years Eve 
Ann and John had a party. We Toasted to you Tony. As I always say take care and keep warm 
This is Mam wishing you a Happy New Year and may all your dreams and wishes come through
Love and God bless , Mam
January 1st, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Happy New Year Tony!!!
Best of luck for 2011, keep on running! : )
Our thoughts are with you every day!!
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:53 pm
We couldn’t get the marching band, but other than that Lowell is ready for you.
January 4th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Hi Tony! Glad to see you were taken care of so well in our state by some of my friends. I can imagine Portland was hard to navigate, I had wondered how you would get through, but two years hence that will only be a small blip on your radar screen – you definitely have your work cut out for you. Good luck with the rest of your journey, we’ll be following along.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Tony,
What fun it was to take part in your adventure today!!! You are really something.
Hope that the greater lowell road runners made your time here in the area a little more fun!
January 5th, 2011 at 12:22 am
Hi Jessica! it was lovely running with you too also Phil and EJ ran the entire 27 miles to Hudson pushing my baby!Thanks so much to the whole Greater Lowell Road Runners for making my stay in your city so memorable. They treated me to dinner last night… You are a great and fun loving bunch of people
Take care and thanks, Tony PS> That EJ is a bit of a head banger!
January 5th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Thank you Sandie for your wonderful hospitality, help and contacts and the effort you put in to making my stay in maine so memorable
You know my new saying? ” I may be doing the running…… But it’s people like you that are making it happen 
” Thanks so much. Please keep in touch, Tony.
January 5th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Hello Tony,
Its Renee from MRC and Starbucks. I was there! Where were you!!!!
January 5th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Rene I was there at 10.40 and stayed till noon. I did not see anyone there. My buggy was outside the door. I was on my laptop and had a high profile place in Starbucks. I could not remember the name of the contact there so did not ask.. Bottom line was there were no runners there.A blind man would have seen me. Shame on Portland Rroad Runners. End of story, my impression of you is not great.I was let down by your club and was highly visable on the highway. End of conversation. I am too busy to be bothered. Thank God for clubs like The Greater Lowell Road Runners. Tony