Days Inn Bar Harbor

Overview<br><br><br><br>Bar Harbor combines beautiful, crisp weather with glorious sightseeing opportunities. Maine is a wonderful state to visit anytime of the year, and in the spring and summertime you could not ask for a more scenic location. In the winter, the weather is cold, but the new-fallen snow will have your eyes begging for more. The soft powder covers the area and it is an absolutely ...

October 7, 2009<br><br>Rain, rain, rain, laundry, grocery shopping, rain, rain, rain.<br><br>October 8-9, 2009<br><br>By chance the van was parked facing due east and we were awakened by a golden glow streaming through the curtain, what a welcome sight . . . sunshine.<br><br>With directions in hand we found an entrance to the carriage roads of Acadia National Park for today's bike ride. The carriage roads were a gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr ...

... to the US for another 10 days! Our destination on the island was the summer home of Franklin D Roosvelt and family. FDR's mother and father bought a place on the island as was the case with other wealthy New Yorkers etc. Franklin spent every summer of his youth on the island. The family eventually built the present house. Franklin, his wife Eleanor and five children continued to holiday on the island until, in 1921, Franklin was diagnosed ...

... and bottled the syrup. The gift shop had a sweatshirt that said "What happens in Vermont, stays in Vermont, but nothing ever happens". Cute, eh?<br><br>Next we crossed New Hampshire. We circled South and drove back North through the White Mountains and past Mt. Washington, the highest peak East of the Rockies. Across the way was Wildcat Mountain, a ski slope I skied in College in 1963. It was on the return ...

... this far south. There were a number of galleries here that we enjoyed. One shop had a very familiar name. <br><br>I wanted to try a lobster roll while I was there. A lobster roll is lump lobster mixed with mayo and some other seasonings in a hot dog bun. We had ours at the Lobster Shack. Very tasty but I couldn't do it for lunch every day. We were enticed into the Lobster Pound by Stone Crab claws as an appetizer. I loved them when I would go to Ft. Lauderdale on ...

... was not able to be checked in on line like the rest of us on Friday. We finally found out that there was an extraneous SR after her name. Delta officials thought she was a nun, instead of a "terrorist." So &#8230; our flights were fine, pretty much on time. We picked up our Town and Country silver van, with automatic side doors. We were thrilled, because last year I got tired of swinging that @#$% door shut all the time. <br><br>We checked ...

... Thunder Hole, yet another local road intersects with the park roads, so the locals bypass this one tiny stretch where the fee station is, and get to drive throughout the rest of the park for free. So how does this help you rough it in Acadia? There are only so many rangers, far too few to keep an eye on all those public roads that criss cross the park. And as long as your not entering or exiting the woods waving a flag, no one will pay you any mind.<br>Basicly you ...

... of. This area was just pristine. We drove past a house where they had set out several jars of blueberry jam and bread for the taking and a jar to make your donation in proportion to your takings all on the honor system. The way life should be. As we continued on to the village of Manset we saw several more "honor systems" with people selling fire wood. Pay $2.50 for a large bundle, "Just leave it in the Kitty". Manset is the home ...