Sep 21, 2012 - The Maine Meal!

We woke up to a cloudy and cool day. Laundry, grocery shopping and driving around was the agenda for the day. We were planning on leaving this morning but decided to stay another day for just catching up. The high for today was 60°F and misty. We visited some antique and fine woodworking stores. There was a lot of nice stuff but pretty pricy. We had lunch at a Maine Lobster Pound house. These lobster pounds are pretty common for this area. You picked the lobster that you want. We picked two 1 ½ pounders. They boil it outside in seawater...

Sep 20, 2012 - Acadia National Park

We are having a blast even when we wake up and its 41°F outside. It was blankets over your head morning. Tomorrow is the last day of summer and I would prefer summer weather. I’m really not ready for fall. I like mid 70’s. The temps did finally reach by mid-afternoon the high of 68°F and clear blue skies. Acadia National Park was our destination today. This is the best National Park that we have visited, by far! There is so much to see and do in this park that it would take a month or more to experience all that it has to offer. There is a...

Sep 19, 2012 - Bar Harbor

What a night we had. Around 11pm the winds pick up and I mean really picked up. We had constant winds in the 20-30 mph with gust up to 70 mph. It lasted till about 8am this morning. The Landwanderer shooked and shaked all night long. Not a good night for sleeping. Many RV’s in the park had damage but we survived. I was really concern about the power lines that were directly above us. They were mostly drooping sideways instead of down most of the night. We choose to explore Bar Harbor area of the Acadia National Park for today. This is a...

Sep 18, 2012 - Crossing back

We took the Grand Manan Adventurer ferry back to the mainland at 7:30am. We had to be at the ferry terminal and in-line at 6:45. The cost to ride the ferry to the island was free, the ride back was $56. The ferry was relatively new and had a nice cafe`. It had a capacity of caring 90 cars. Breakfast was ok with instant coffee. We only had one cup!... We were told that normally we would see whales and other marine life on this one and a half hour ride, but it was quiet for us. I talked to a passenger who was a lobster fisherman that lived on...

Sep 14, 2012 - 18 and counting

We are in Acadia National Park on the east coast of Maine. We have been here before, once in 1975,again at a BF'er Banquet and now. This is the 18th National Park of our great adventure. When we arrived to the visitor's center about 1 PM they told us the closer of 2 campgrounds was full and the other campground had just 5 spots left. I reserved one and had to be there within the hour. Well it is not close at all to the visitor's center and we got lost. It's laughable but we ended up on top of Cadilac Mountain! Well we wanted to see the view...

Aug 7, 2012 - Loop Road around Acadia National Park

It is hard work being a tourist! We spent the day driving the 27-mile Loop Road through Acadia National Park. The pictures tell the tale of our day. There was rugged granite shoreline, lots of forest, sailboats, floats marking lobster cages, sparkling water--and lots of tourists. At one point the traffic on the road made us remark "this is worse than Yellowstone!". From reading the information from the visitor center "high season" is from July to mid-October, which makes this the middle of the busiest time. The tourist part of the day...

Aug 2, 2012 - Didn't write in my journal so trying to remember the day....

Ok, looked at the pictures to remember.... This was the day we got the kids up at 4 a.m. to head to Cadillac Mountain for the sunrise. That didn't happen. It was so foggy and cloudy. Couldn't see a thing. We got back in the car where they all napped for an hour or so. We ate breakfast out of the car, and drove to Jordan Pond. We hiked around the whole pond, about 4 miles. Foggy but pretty. After that we drove to Sand Beach and got on the Ocean Path trail. Takes you from Sand Beach to Thunder Hole. Joe was with Andrew and Jason climbing all...

Aug 1, 2012 - Woke to rain, clear afternoon

Rained overnight, and still drizzly, so we drove to Blue Hill. We went to Rackliff Pottery, and then drove to Brooklin. We found E.B. Whites grave, and Dougs family. Skies were clearing, so we stopped for a pizza and drove back. We went to a trail just past our campground called Wonder Land. It was a half mile hike in to such a beautiful coastline. The tidepools were breathtaking and were FULL of stuff! They found too many sea stars (starfish) to count, urchins, a lobster, sea cucumbers, and snails. It was amazing. When we left there, we...

Jul 31, 2012 - First full day

We are all getting tired and smelly. Tried the camp shower, even though it was a little chilly, it worked pretty good! We took a hike Joe heard about called Flying Mountain. It was up up up to beautiful vistas from above of Somes Sound. We continued on the trail down down down to the waters edge where we hung for a bit. There was a fire road to take out that was shorter and level, but we hiked back up and down. Jason would hold out his hand to help me down rocks, and Ben would always wait up for me. We then drove to the Bass Head Harbor...

Jul 30, 2012 - Getting to Acadia

Today we packed up and left Searsport. I was awake at 5 a.m! Excited to get to Acadia. On the way we stopped at Penobscot Bay bridge and towers and Ft. Knox. We learned that this Ft. Knox was named after the same guy that the one in KY is. Jason pitched a fit and did NOT want to go up the elevator, but his wonderful mom forced him. He was just about fine by the time he got to the top. 422 feet up. Finally got to our site, and set up (again). It was a beautiful campsite, surrounded by lots of pine trees. To get to the seawall was a 10 minute...

Jun 25, 2012 - Acadia National Park

Sunday was a lazy day. We decided to stay over one more day and get things ready for Canada. On Monday we headed East and stopped off at Acadia National Park near Trenton, Maine. We parked our rigs at the Visitor’s Center and all of us (including Heidi and Cinder) loaded into Sandy and Diana’s Roadtrek and drove around the park. It was a beautiful drive – granite cliffs, beaches that look like sand, but is actually crushed seashells and rocks, and lighthouses. Cadillac Mountain rises 1500 feet in the middle of the park, the highest...

Jun 7, 2012 - Gardens and Acadia National Park

This day - on Mt. Desert Island - began with occasional rain and drizzle. We visited Acousti Gardens; then drove to Northeast and Southwest Harbors - also, Bass harbor Light and several other places. We stopped often and took lots of pictures. Eventually the rain stopped and the sun came out. Lunch was harbor side - seats in our transportation. We stopped to see Thunder Hole and Otter Point.