After all the rain of the past 3 days, today dawned beautiful! The sun was shining almost all day. This evening it started to cloud up a bit, but apparently, Hurricane Kyle has moved out to sea quicker that they had predicted. We went to bed last night with Kyle still threatening the coast. Earlier in the evening I mentioned to Larry that he hadn’t secured our awning, he said he would do it later. After we got to bed, I mentioned it again, he had forgotten to do it, but the wind wasn’t blowing very much at all and the weather man had predicted that we wouldn’t see much of the storm. About 2:00 he woke up worrying about the awning. We still didn’t have much wind, but he wasn’t able to really rest, so he got up and went out and put the awning down. I’m sure the neighbors loved hearing the slam of the awning hitting the camper at that time of night.
Since it was such a beautiful day, we drove to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park today.
It was a glorious day, the weather was beautiful and the area was beautiful as well. The tide was in when we first got there, so all the bays were full and the waves were crashing in and spraying.
We drove around some of the bays first, and then drove up Cadillac Mountain getting out at several points.
Driving back it almost seemed as if the trees had turned to their fall colors more than they had been this morning. Again, the word is Beautiful!
One of the unique things we’ve seen in this area is some of the older farm houses are joined to the barn.
Many of them have been added on to several times and finally joined to the barn. I’m sure they have some pretty severe winters up here, so this way, they don’t have to go out into the weather.
Another of the unique things for this area, but this applies to all of New England, not just Maine, is that there are Dunkin’ Donuts on nearly every other corner. We’ve never seen so many DD’s. A fairly small town, maybe the size of Troy, would have probably 3 or 4 Dunkin’ donuts! We got back to Hermon about 5:00, stopped at a drive-in that had been recommended by the people at the campground, and got a haddock basket and clams. We ate there at the picnic tables then came back to the camper to settle in for the night. The awning is down.
Since it was such a beautiful day, we drove to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park today.
It was a glorious day, the weather was beautiful and the area was beautiful as well. The tide was in when we first got there, so all the bays were full and the waves were crashing in and spraying.
We drove around some of the bays first, and then drove up Cadillac Mountain getting out at several points.
Driving back it almost seemed as if the trees had turned to their fall colors more than they had been this morning. Again, the word is Beautiful!
One of the unique things we’ve seen in this area is some of the older farm houses are joined to the barn.
Many of them have been added on to several times and finally joined to the barn. I’m sure they have some pretty severe winters up here, so this way, they don’t have to go out into the weather.
Another of the unique things for this area, but this applies to all of New England, not just Maine, is that there are Dunkin’ Donuts on nearly every other corner. We’ve never seen so many DD’s. A fairly small town, maybe the size of Troy, would have probably 3 or 4 Dunkin’ donuts! We got back to Hermon about 5:00, stopped at a drive-in that had been recommended by the people at the campground, and got a haddock basket and clams. We ate there at the picnic tables then came back to the camper to settle in for the night. The awning is down.
1 comment:
Hi Karen and Larry,
Just wanted to let you know I have been reading and injoying your blog. Sorry to hear you had a mishap but, luckily you hit your hard head LOL. Miss you at work but I'm sure the 2 of you are having more fun than we are.
Don
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