Acadia Hotel

October 24 We left the hotel and had a long, long ride to Acadia National Park. We stopped off at the visitor's center and Ranger Donna told us about the Park. Lunch was at Jordan Pond House. Mr. Nish and I (Skyler) thought the food was good. The ...

... on. I dare you to click on the link above and check out the madness ;). Our main(e) goal (hehe that's a pun) was to see Acadia National Park. We have heard tales of it's beauty so we figured we should check it out. Oh boy was it beautiful! We didn't ...

... ; Slight change of plans in PEI due to the impending hurricane... instead of tenting in the national park, we decided to get a hotel in Summerside.  Real beds and showers, glorious!  We had tickets to an Acadian Dinner with chef Michael Smith ...

... a relatively short walk to our hotel inside the walled city. Unfortunately Google maps didn't tell us it was all uphill. Stayed at Hotel Acadia, a number of converted dwellings combined to form a hotel; very nice. We were down in the basement and it was ...

... the night rugged up, with the heater on full bore, watching TV. The next morning, we drove through the accessible parts of Acadia National Park. We drove up to the Meteorite Centre there, but predictably it was closed. We tried to follow the trail to the ...

... French colonists who settled along the shores of Canada's Bay of Fundy and Nova Scotia's Annapolis Basin, a region they called "Acadia". Fishermen and farmers, they stayed close to the shorelines, constructing elaborate dikes to claim new crop lands. ...

... pay its Federal highway bill, because we bumped, bounced and swerved our way towards Lafayette. We were going to the heart of Acadia (Cajun) Country. Our first night in Louisiana was just outside Lafayette, in St. Martinville (the sixth oldest city in LA) ...

... the construction of a raised freeway for 18 miles accross it all the more impressive. The Cajun people (French settlers kicked out of 'Acadia' in Canada 350 years ago when the English renamed it 'Nova Scotia') used to live on floating houses not so long ...

... history of New Orleans and how the different land and climate was the origin of Cajun food from their old land in Maine – Acadia. We arrived in New Orleans around 4. Checked into the Best Western on North Rampart which was really nice – it ...

... was time to push farther north. The state of Connecticut had other ideas.  It seems they forgot to put a northbound ramp from our hotel.  I needed one the day before and figured I just missed it when I went to Mystic.  I was wrong.  ...

... for the Battle of Fort Beausejour, which was both the final act in the long fight between Britain and France for control of Acadia and the opening act of the final struggle between the two great empires for North America itself. Back in the 1700's, the ...

... and then we had to find the chocolate shop just to finish the day off! By this time we were very wet, so back to the nice, warm hotel room. (I hear you've all had quite a lot of rain - so you know how it is.) Paul & I started the next day with a ...

... nbsp;  Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 2,589,288 · (in Ohio)  Grand Teton National Park, 2,580,081 ·   Acadia National Park, 2,227,698  Looks like we need to visit North Carolina/Tennessee and see what everyone else is enjoying. ...

... when it is clear and about 60F at night. After driving the long way around, we found a brewing company and ate some food. The blueberry beer was NOT good. After some additional poor navigating by me, we made it to the hotel very late, and fell ...

... ?) Monday, the 20th, we moved north to Acadia NP and Bar Harbor.  We stayed in Bangor, which is about 1 1/2 hours from Acadia but has more reasonable room costs.  The drive over to the coast was time-consuming, but we accepted it as the price of ...