Day 8 - Bar Harbour

We made it to Bar Harbour, a place we wanted to visit last time, but decided against due to time restrictions as its a fair distance up the North East Coast line. There is a little island called Mt Desert which is connected to the mainland via a bridge. This is home to Acadia National Park and if you ever get the chance you should visit it, it has some absolutely lovely views and scenic areas to walk around.

Oh and our lodge has a Gas BBQ. We had some Hot dogs on it today to give it a test run, but now I am off to the store to buy me some Meat and beer!

Day 8 - The Drive to Maine

Today we headed East again, towards Maine. On the way, we stopped in at 47 West Broadway in Bangor for Tea and a Short Story, unfortunately Mr King was not in residence, so we took a couple of picys and headed on to Bar Harbour.

Day 7 - Cannon Mountain

The last remaining clouds cleared today and we took a Cable Car to the top of Cannon Mountain (4200 ft above sea Level). It's principly a Ski Resort area, but you can't beat the views from this height, although I think something is lost in a photo as they don't really capture the moment.

As you can see, the viewing distace was phenomenal and in the second photo, on the horizon, there is an area of the mountain about a 1/3 from the left side that looks like it has been scooped out (I did mark the photo, but you might have to click on it to enlarge the photo to see it). Just the other side of this is Canada.

Day 6 - New Hampshire - Flume Gorge

The rain stopped sometime during the night and this morning was glorious weather again. We headed over to Flume Gorge where they have a 3 or 4 mile round loop that takes you around the park area and up the sides of a couple of waterfalls. The entire area was created in the aftermath of the last ice age when the region was covered snow and ice which cracked up the land as it melted and refroze. This eroded the softer soil leaving the the harder granite to make the gorge and waterfalls... anyway, enough of a geography lesson.

All in all it was a nice round trip, there was sufficient wind to keep the bugs away and I got to play with some of the features of my camera to take these photos.

Day 5 - New Hampshire

It rained! Not a lot else I can say really...

Day 4 - Ben and Jerry's

About another 2 hours drive north west took us to the Ben and Jerrys factory tour, its well worth a visit for the endless cow related puns, the history of how they got started and the audience participation... Many of you will know how much I "love" audience participation. That aside, we got some free samples and I got into an argument with the tour guide over why Vanilla was the best flavour! Not sure I am allowed back anymore...

Day 3 - Vermont

We travelled North-West today through the forests of New Hampshire and into Vermont. Vermont is famed (amongst other things) for her covered bridges, the one here is reported to be the longest in the US. The exact reason why they built covered bridges seems to be lost to the mists of time, but there are several perfectly good explanations that they are happy to tell you, so take your pick!

1) To keep you dry during the rain
2) To make the horses feel more safe when travelling over rushing water
3) To make the bridges last longer in the Vermont Weather
4) To stop the bridges getting covered in snow.

We stopped off in a couple of places to admire the sceneary and took a stroll down to see the Queechee Gorge (I think that's how you spelt it!) but we did little else today due to the long drive, especially when our Sat Nav packed up about half way through when it no longer recognised any road maps in the United States and we didn't have any paper maps to fall back on... which was Fun!

We finally pitched up in our tent and collapse for the night!