Jul 23, 2012 - Campobello/Lubec, ME

Lynda has finally convinced me to write entries consistent with specific locations rather than cover longer time periods, often with multiple locations. It will ease her role of loading photographs and updating the Trip Journal map. Generally this will mean shorter missives I am told “that readers will appreciate.” So here goes an adjustment in my writing approach. We bid adieu to Larry and Kathy on Sunday morning July 15 and headed up I-295/I-95 to Bangor and then east to the Peacock House B&B in Lubec. As I mentioned previously our...

Sep 17, 2011 - Campobello Island New Brunswick Canada

We left St. Andrews for Campobello Island where FDR International Park is located. Along the way we drove to Letete New Brunswick, we took a ferry to Deer Island. A wonderful 20 mins journey, the water and scenery was beautiful. From Deer Island you can take a ferry to Eastpoint Maine or to Campobello Island. at the tip of Deer island is a whirlpool, called Old Sow, that is the second largest in the world. This happens about 2 hours before high tide. Unfortunately we were about 3 hours early. We took the ferry to Campobello, our 16th ferry...

Aug 6, 2011 - Campobello Island, NB

We took a day trip in one of our tow vehicles today to see Campobello Island and the Roosevelt summer house and grounds. It takes two ferries to get there from where we are. The Deer Island Ferry was free and took us from the mainland to Deer Island (about 1/2 hour). One then drives the length of Deer Island - 10 miles or so - to connect with the second ferry (not free) to Campobello Island (another 1/2 hour). In the 1880s, part of Campobello Island was sold to a group of Americans who planned a resort. In 1883, James and Sara Roosevelt...

Jul 18, 2010 - Campobello Island - flowers

This page is posted mainly to display the photos of the flowers that were growing in the gardens at both the Roosevelt House and the Hubbard House. These flowers were so beautiful with their vibrant blossoms of orange, yellow, purple, hot pink, and red to name a few of the colors. Sorry, but I didn't get the names of all the flowers. I asked some of the visitors to the park and even one of the guides there, but they didn't know themselves. Those that are labelled, I found out what they were from looking through a book on field wildflowers...

Jul 18, 2010 - Campobello Island, Canada

One of the staff here at Great Pond recommended that we visit the Roosevelt Park on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada, so today we are on our way there. It’s a 2 hour drive to the Canadian border. We stopped at the customs border, where they asked us the usual questions: do you have any firearms? any alcoholic beverages? how long a visit? American citizens? etc. When they were satisfied with our answers they let us go. Didn’t take long at all. Our first stop was at the visitor center in New Brunswick where we got some information...

Jun 17, 2010 - Arrival in Canada

We have arrived at Campobello Island International Park in New Brunswick with Franklin Roosevelt's summer cottage, parents' cottage, and other homes. This morning we crossed the FDR bridge after spending the night next to the mouth of the Bay of Fundy near Lubec, Maine. Lubec is the furthest east town in the US. Yesterday, we had a gorgeous sunny day when we left our friends' home. When we drove downeast in Maine towards the Maritimes, the countryside reminded us so much of Michigan's upper Peninsula. We made a stop at Machias, ME to see...

Jul 2, 2009 - Deer & Campobello Islands

We took a day trip (a ferry experience) to Deer Island, then Campobello Island. Deer Isl was interesting and scenic, but Campobello had the history. FDR's family had a summer cottage there, and he spent much of his childhood summers here. The house was preserved with original artifacts. The house next door was more interesting with a killer view from the dining area.

Jul 27, 2008 - Campobello

To add a postscript to our stay in Saint Andrews, the morning departure was interrupted by a trip to the Market Wharf for some fresh water, once the whale watch boats had departed. Jean took the opportunity to walk to the head of the quay where the Thursday Farmers Market was going full swing. While Bill filled and scrubbed, she had a delightful visitation with the local farmers….and some recent arrivals. Returning with some produce, the real find was a Lebanese table laden with wonderful yoghurt sauces, hummus, tabboulie, breads and the...

Jul 18, 2008 - North to the easternmost part of the US and to Canada!

Another day and more adventure: we sampled wild blueberries along the shoreline during our morning walk; stood at the easternmost location in the United States at a lighthouse in Lubec, Maine; saw finback whales off the East Quoddy Lighthouse on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, watched a regal bald eagle perched at the top of a tall tree, and I ate a delicious lobster for supper (the owner of the RV park cooks freshly caught lobster every evening for RV park guests for a very reasonable price)! As we walked along the shoreline of the...

Jul 11, 2008 - Easternmost Point

And our first venture into Canada - Friday, July 11 Today we are leaving Acadia and driving north to the Canadian boarder. Our destination is the town of Robbinston, Maine which is just across the water from New Brunswick. We have reservations at the Hilltop Campground in Robbinston, where we plan to spend a day or two getting organized for our trip into Canada. The drive up along the northeastern Maine coast is one I'll never forget, not because we saw anything spectacular, but because we were on highways that wound through small towns and...

Oct 3, 2007 - Quoddy Head - Easternmost point in US

Today a high pressure system moved in with some cool, calm air, and the day was foggy just about all day. We left the Penobscot and drove up the coast (down east, by local reckoning) about 100 miles to the Passamaquoddy for a visit to the easternmost point in the US at Quoddy Head. From this point if one were to go east you would be in the Atlantic Ocean and north it is the Bay of Fundy and New Brunswick Canada. If you look back at the earlier entries, there is a photo of Darlene and I on the Pacific Ocean beach at Brookings, Oregon, which...

Sep 20, 2007 - Ellsworth, Maine

Today we took a side trip on our way to Ellsworth, Maine. We went back into Canada to Campobello Island. This is the island where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent his summer holidays. This is an park that is run by both Canada and United States as it was the birth place and summer home of several US import people. A very interesting visit to learn that the US and Canada can work together. We also went to a spot at the north end of the island where we were able to see finback whales playing in the bay. Awesome. We learned about the fishing life...