Tuesday, July 19, 2016

It's so cool here, we aren't even running AC!

Well, we have had a busy couple of days here. Yesterday we left Scarborough just a little later than planned. The drive was a little boring and we finished our audiobook. We got off the interstate at Bangor and took a smaller road to Bar Harbor. There was a section of road, probably 1/2 mile long where they had torn up the pavement and it was just bumpy gravel. I was not so sure about it (memories of the Great Utah GPS Debacle of 2014) but then I saw some RVs coming the opposite way, so I figured we would make it.  Chuck had reserved a rental car at the Bar Harbor airport so we stopped there on our way to the campground.  It is a pretty tiny airport, and we just pulled into the empty taxi parking line to park.

We got to the campground around 1:00, set up, and had lunch. We have some pretty good views from our campsite. That is an empty site between us & the water, so the good views may not last. It was super windy. Maybe not Great Sand Dunes windy, but very close.



We decided to drive to one of the Acadia welcome centers and check it out.


We bought a park pass and some souvenirs and then went on the Park Loop. I had purchased a little book with points of interest on the Park Loop. Well, we got to #5, I think, and Chuck saw Cadillac Mountain (I think it was #18) and turned there. We drove up (don't worry - we will hike it later) and parked at the top and walked around. It was really, really windy up there, but beautiful.




After we left the parking lot we thought we would get back on the Park Loop but discovered we had missed the rest of the loop tour.  We stumbled onto Jordan Pond, so we pulled in there to check it out. The (non) wind was so calm there, the water was almost glassy. We did some exploring, found some frogs just hanging out, the usual.




After leaving the park, we ended up driving down Main St. through Bar Harbor. Holy cow, there were a lot of people and cars there! Parallel parking on both sides of the street, and not a lot of room left in between for two-way traffic. We decided we will take a shuttle to there when we go.

After supper at the camper, we played some SpikeBall, with a time-out for the sunset.


And now I'm so exhausted from today's activities that I will have to write about them tomorrow. Spoiler alert: there was no SpikeBall today!

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