The Colonial Inn Ellsworth

Overview



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 ...

... After crossing back into the US we drove along the coast back down to Bar Harbour. We went to the Quoddy Lighthouse, the most eastern lighthouse in the US. We saw a lot of scenic, ruggest coastline and also went to Schoodic Point.
Fro dinner we went to a ``lobster pound``. At a lobster pound you pick out your lobster which is then put in an rope bag, tagged and taken outside to a cauldron where the water is heated to boiling by a wood ...

What a day! It dawned clear and bright, and stayed that way all day. We drove across the "neck" of Vermont, and loved it. The towns were clean, quaint, and beautiful. The houses seemed very old, and most had three or more additions added to the side of them. We theorized it was additions as generations were added to the families over the years. We stopped at a maple syrup factory where they made maple candy ...

... and always thought that were from the south rather than up here. They were as good as I had remembered.

Like many small ports, it is pretty easy to cover the town in a couple of hours. We did buy a couple of water colors by a local artist. The shop called Macey's is really no relation. The family name is Mace.

The departure was interesting because the captain had to basically tip toe out of he harbor missing all of the thousands of lobster pot bouys.

Today we were in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Had nice weather today. Unbelievable place. We think its the best island in the world! It has everything, beautiful scenery, mountains, lakes, forests, cycle trails and good summers. In the winter it drops to -30C and they have skiing, cross-country skiing (using the cycle trails!)... and massive lobster trade! Lovely island.
Cruising through thick fog as we write ...

We drove from Atlanta up to Maine the second week of September. For three months, the weather in Maine was generally seasonably warm and mostly very sunny. This gave us the chance to take many hikes at Acadia National Park, about 10 miles from home. We also went to Atlanta for Halloween, and ...

Wednesday, September 2, 2009, and we are finally at our destination of Bar Harbor, ME – gateway to the Acadia National Park system.

Today we left St. Andrews about 10:00 a.m. We had a light breakfast, and headed out south east to the US town Lubec, ME. Lubec, the most north eastern town of the US, has a bridge going to Campobello Island, a Canadian island housing what was the summer home of Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) and ...

The Westy has decided it needs attention and rest, so we are heading to Montreal. Ben at Ben's Place will give it his best care and attention.
The drive through Maine and New Hampshire is again, giving us a new sense of the vastness of America and an appreciation for it's beauty.

The bus ride was about four and a half hours. But there were two bathroom breaks for Kiana to freshen up. Finally we reached Ellsworth. Dinner was at the Kona's Seafood and Steak, although didn't have any seafood or steak to eat there. The butter had maple syrup mixed. It was sweet. The dinner was okay. Jasmine was creating problems for the ...

We left Atlanta April 23 and drove through the Carolinas north to Lynchburg, Virginia, to stay at a Thousand Trails campground there. The campground was closed so we just put up our tent by the entrance. It was kind of in the middle of nowhere with only a little market across the street. Continued north to Washington, D.C. Got a hostel there that would reimburse us for parking so that was cool. We went to Capitol Hill and into the Senate to try and get White House tix from our state's ...