How cool that they’ve opened their establishment to fellow RVers looking to boondock! Our parking spot was located just outside the market. The market is owned by Joan and Ernie (also RV owners!!), Massachusetts natives who have owned Wallace’s for nearly two decades. We booked our stay at Wallace’s Market through Boondockers Welcome (note: I made sure to get the host’s permission to name the site before writing this!). We continued up the coast, meandering through the quaint coastal towns of Rockland, Rockport, and Camden, going so far as Belfast before circling back toward our destination for the night: Friendship, Maine. One of my boondocking fears is that we’ll be awakened to knocks on the van telling us to move that’s why making sure overnight parking is permitted is important I’m not ready for “stealth” camping just yet and simply overnighting in non-designated areas. Needless to say, our first night boondocking in a parking lot was quiet-we barely heard the train that passes through Freeport-and we felt absolutely safe. Few folks were out, and we were the only vehicle in the lot until a truck camper also parked and stayed the night. We had pulled in around 4:30 on a Friday evening, and Freeport seemed all but deserted. I can imagine the parking lot would be packed in the summer months, as it’s super convenient to all of the Freeport shops (including the LLBean flagship store, one of my favorites!). This was our first time boondocking in a public parking lot, and given that it was a cold December weekend, we didn’t have much trouble finding a spot. There are a few different apps/websites that are helpful in finding places to camp and boondock, and iOverlander is one that we've been checking out more consistently. As for the public parking lot, we had checked online to make sure overnight parking allowed using the app and website iOverlander. We booked the BW site ahead of time-again, really easy and so user-friendly to book online. We opted for two different spots-an overnight parking lot for RVs in Freeport, Maine, and a Boondockers Welcome site in Friendship, Maine. This year, our getaway might have looked a little bit different, but we still managed to escape in Tedda for a change of scenery. As G’s birthday falls between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we’ve always tried to sneak away for a weekend in between the holidays each year. One of these days, maybe we’ll hop the border and even make our home in “Vacationland.” While we love Maine year-round, there’s something especially beautiful about the coast in winter-the quiet, the stillness, the solitude (all the more appreciated these days!).Īfter our first successful boondocking weekend in Acadia over the Thanksgiving weekend, G and I decided to boondock again to celebrate G’s birthday. We fell in love with the coast and with Maine itself 26 years later, we’re still making those coastal drives, and Maine still has our heart. If you follow this blog, you know that Maine is our absolute favorite place when G and I first started dating back in 1995, we often spent our weekends driving to Maine and visiting the small towns dotting the coast.
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