Bass Harbor Inn
Travel Blogs from Bass Harbor
Playing In Vacationland
... with my cousin Paula and her husband Scot. It had been about 10 years since we last saw each other. It's incredible how time quickly slips away. We all seem to get caught up with the things life throws at us. It is however great when we can stop a moment with what we’re doing and reconnect again. I was really looking forward to seeing Paula again and catching up.
Staying with family, it’s a chance to slow down and just hang out. ...
New Hampshire, Three Authors, and the Maine Coast
... would not be so bad (he said, typing on his new laptop using the local wifi).
Finally making it to New Hampshire, we stayed in another mostly vacant campground (very late in the season), but there are some perks to doing that. In this case, the campground had a game room with ping pong and a pool table, and we had it to ourselves for the three nights we were there.
We spent one full day in camp to do boring stuff like laundry and work, and then ...
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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By land and by sea
... and where some of the various sights and trailheads are located. This makes it easier to plan your time and the views are amazing. It's one of the prettiest drives you'll ever take.
In the past I have hiked some of the mountains in the park, I've camped at Blackwoods Campground, I've hit the main sights. I recommend it all, but for me and Al, we wanted to explore and stay on the quietside. After ...
Rest Day
... cloud. We got to the top at about 4.15am and ventured out into the damp. The dawn chorus had already started with one particularly eerie cry sounding like a creaking hinge or, if you were alone on the top of a mountain in the fog, like the whistle of an absent minded psychopath. We wandered along the summit path but couldn’t see anything. It was light enough back at the car to see another car at the other end of the carpark. We hadn’t ...