Lindenwood Inn Southwest Harbor

... visiting Acadia National Park. This destination is truly one of Mother Nature's greatest achievements, and the local government has made tremendous efforts to keep this park in its natural form. There is plenty for you to do in Bar Harbor, and both the shopping and the nightlife are rocking. From live music to the theater, the city offers plenty of great activities once the sun goes down.

Bar Harbor, Maine, United States katstravel

October 7, 2009

Rain, rain, rain, laundry, grocery shopping, rain, rain, rain.

October 8-9, 2009

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.

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 ...

... I love the QV!
We spent the rest of the day driving around the park seeing rugged coast line, lakes, ponds, hiking trails, trees,granite and the Thunder Hole. The fall foliage is not yet all we had hoped for. The maples are turning a vibrant red but the yellow and oranges of aspens etc are just starting. Apparently, the fall colours will be at their peak in about 1 1/2 weeks. People who come to Maine for the fall foliage are ...

... are all in New Hampshire, so the land is rolling and not mountainous. The towns seem older and grittier, and not very scenic. We checked into our hotel in Bangor, and headed out to Bar Harbor for a crustacean-a-rama! The road from Bangor to Bar Harbor was 45 miles of misery. Chopped up and construction everywhere. We expected Bar Harbor to be a sleepy little fishing village. Au Contraire, Pierre, it ...

It was a beautiful sunny fall day that was pretty windy. I was glad that bought a lined wind breaker in Newport. Bar Harbor is a tender port. The ship was at anchor out among the lobster pot jungle. The ship is set with the azipods turned so that it acts as a large wind break. This keeps the chop to a minimum when getting on and off of the tender.

As usual, we enjoyed breakfast in the Lido before going ashore. I usually have muesli and raisin bread. If I am there ...

... on our way to Halifax in Nova Scotia tomorrow. We will effectively leave USA and enter Canadian waters at around 3am tomorrow morning!
Aurora is sounding her foghorns at the mo! Never seen such thick fog at sea. Bit eeary !
Off for a major USA themed party tonight in the nightclub... will be a bit like our wedding evening. Wishing we had bought some of the American flags!
Hope all are well.
Love Paul & Laura xx

... to see, and we were all happy to catch a glimpse of them again before leaving Canada.

It was now time to return to the US pass the border patrol. The guards there were quite amazed that we didn’t have too much in the way to declare, but let us go over without incident. We had about a two hour trip to Bar Harbor, and were a little tired after the day so far. We arrived about 5:30 p.m., checked in and decided to go ...

... ME. The guy at the front desk recommended a place called “Becky’s” for breakfast. It was a nice place along the water.

We then left for our 3.5 hour trip to Bar Harbor. Along the way we decided (on the recommendation of Nancy) to take the scenic route to Acadia National Park/Bar Harbor. Fortunately for us we did, because we heard that 11 people were swept into the Atlantic Ocean due to the high surf at the park. We had ...

... POUNDS EVERYWHERE----PICK YOUR LOBSTER AND DROP IT IN TO BOIL.FOR $13.99--A 1 1/4 LB. TO A 2 LB.SLAW,FRIES,CORN ON COB AND FRESH ROLLS AND A SLICE OF BLUEBERRY PIE. WE HAD LOBSTER EVERYDAY.THEN THERE WERE THE CLAM SHACKS--$1.00 A CUP OF THE BEST CLAM CHOWDER IN THE WORLD.THE RIDE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL UP THE COAST THE ROADWAYS WERE LINED WITH WILD FLOWERS EVERYWHERE AND MANY PICK AND CUT STOPS.YOU GET YOUR SCISSORS,GLOVES AND BUCKET AND PICK AND CUT YOUR OWN FLOWERS FOR $4.00.SO WE HAD ...

... at a place called Seal Cove. Maybe because of the foggy skies or rocky shores, or both, the place reminded us of the Pacific Northwest. We felt at home and hung out watching loons and walking a bit of the shoreline. Afterwards we headed out to Bass Harbor, where we found a potential boat tour was not going out due to the weather, so we headed to the nearby lighthouse for some sightseeing and new views of the water. It turns out that both Bass Harbor and the ...