We have arrived at one of the original destinations of the trip, Acadia National Park.
Quebec City was the other, but it lies on the other side of a closed border, so it was replaced. Erin and I added two more states, Maine and New Hampshire to the list of states we’ve been to. Once I collect Vermont, I’ll be done with the Northeast.
Today was mostly travel with a morning visit to Portsmouth and a lunch stop in Falmouth – I wasn’t sure we were going to find an open restaurant there. We made it to Mount Desert Island, cool breeze in our hair, in time to get settled in the cabin we had to switch to a few days ago before the rain hit. Once it rolled through it was off to Bar Harbor and dinner, which came off the menu when we saw how crowded the town is (as in hard to find a parking spot and people waiting at every restaurant). So it was off to a grocery store and it too had a long line to get in (blankety blank coronavirus) but we persevered and eventually dined back at the cabin.
We motored thru the 2,000 mile mark today. We have gone so far I no longer recognize the names of most stores here. They do things a little differently with highway exits too. Starting in New York, but ever since the exits are numbered sequentially instead of by the mile marker, so I can’t estimated distance to go to our next exit, I have to rely on the smartphone and you know how much I love that.
Given my age, my coffee intake, etc etc I have to pee twice as often as the rest of the family combined. I remember when as a teenager my father would stop for coffee, then 15 minutes later a potty break, then 15 minutes later coffee, ad infinitum. Some trips I didn’t think we’d ever arrive. I’m not near that bad, but I did ponder buying Depends when we stopped for lunch.
