Smuggler's Den Campground
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The painful drive
We were supposed to leave at 5 am, but we ended leaving at 11 - which is a big 6 hour difference. It took us roughly 4 hours longer, than mapquest said it would. It total with stops we drove 15 hours to Bar Harbor, Maine. Of course mapquest could not predict that we would be at the border for 45 minutes, plus we scrapped the idea of going through …
Playing In Vacationland
... Sand Beach. Standing on the shores of the beach watching surfers catch the waves, I thought of our time at Tofino, BC when we were there in February watching people do the same thing on the Pacific Ocean. I love the combination of water surrounded by mountains. Water, alluring but scary for me (I don’t know how to swim), the mountains for the spirit and mystery that this terrain holds, I need to climb them. Coming to Cadillac Mountain and ...
New Hampshire, Three Authors, and the Maine Coast
... difficult to avoid these things), we saw plenty of signs for moose, but nary an actual moose. Our first stop was in Bangor (which I've always pronouced as "Banger", but the locals pronounce as "Bang-Gore"). The stop was at Stephen King's house. King has long been one of my favorite authors, and it was great to snap a quick picture outside his mansion. It really is a mansion, with turrets, statuary, and a wonderfully Gothic wrought-iron fence with bats, ...
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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