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Playing In Vacationland
Mary's Impressions:
Continuing on our journey to catch the fall colours on the U.S. Eastern Coast, we made our way to the state of Maine also known as Vactionland. The name is an appropriate description for the US state that draws thousands of vacationers who visit its many lakes, rivers, long coastline (about 5,000 miles) or go camping and hiking in its forest (about 17 million acres of forestland). Our main purpose however in coming to Maine was ...
New Hampshire, Three Authors, and the Maine Coast
... and bitter winds. It's a bit more masculine than the Washington coast, I thought. The park is gorgeous, and you can sit out on the rock cliffs and just stare at the ocean. We were very fortunate to be there on a sunny day. The days on either side of that day were stormy.
We had lunch in Bar Harbor, which is kind of an upscale, touristy spot. Our lunch was pretty nondescript, but it included frozen custard, which was another first for us. Mmmm. Then we ...
One final walk on the pedestrian path...
Kim fell in love with Bar Harbor - could move there in a minute, if it weren't for their cold winters, so for one last glimse of this wonderful little harbor town, we took one last walk along the harbor trail and took some final photos for memories.
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Hiking on Mt. Cadillac
Final morning in Bar Harbor, we headed up to Mt. Cadillac one more time to see if we could see the views - only to find it even foggier than the day before and the wind was howling! So we headed back down the mtn and in just a short distance, we finally saw some of the views of the village and bay below. The views are a bit dim, because the fog was swirling around the mountain, but the view was still pretty cool from up there.
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Lobster, Lobster, & More Lobster
... known as a delicacy) and all, and it was delicious. I was shocked to find out that Maine is the largest producer of blueberries, raised in New Jersey I thought that we had been (how egocentric), the blueberry pie was amazing.
We took another stroll around town to work off our lobster before retiring. We have a big day tomorrow, mountains to climb and seas to kayak!
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