Acadia National Park

SAT August 21, 2010

Friday moving from Boston to Acadia National Park, for lunch I stopped by Boothbay Harbor ME; Boothbay Harbor has grown since I was last there about 1966 and the price of the lobster roll sandwich has gone up in price triple but it is still just as good. I had just about given up on having lunch because I couldn’t find a place to park; lots do not have hourly rates, the rate is for all day, $20.00 for a RV or trailer, and they were full, just about given up and was effectively heading out of town when I found three parking places together, glad I had my bike because I was no longer near the center of town.

By the way, weather here was 53 deg when I woke up this morning and went to shower and it reached all the way to the low 70’s during the day.

Acadia National Park is just like you see on film and in brochures, lovely. The ocean and the granite cliffs present a magnificent picture; I walked, I hiked, I biked, I kicked back and had lunch and I took a mess of pictures. Beautiful and relaxing.

Mid afternoon I went into Bar Harbor and acted like a tourist, walking around and shopping but not buying anything, lots of Japanese and Italians and other accents heard, nice.

Bullets:
• See as many self storage places in the woods of Maine as I do in the larger cities
• Impression of Bar Harbor, basically built up in the 50’s but everything is painted up and fixed up, guess its “quaint” here in Downeast Maine.
• This is granite country and 9 or 10 foot granite blocks are used for curbing instead of concrete
• On this trip I notice a lot of second childhood stuff, old men and old women on motorcycles
• You should see the stacks of firewood the locals lay in for the winter
• That reminds me, “winter” begins here September 1, you see it on the rates charged for rooms and other things
• Mel Brooks, “It’s nice to be king.” and you can see that at the Bar Harbor airport, lots of big private jets
• When in Rome: for dinner I had lobster and it just tasted better on the Maine coast than it does from Red Lobster in Arizona or California, followed by Maine Blueberry pie