Many of the Interstate
highways in the East are toll roads. The good news is they all use the E-Z Pass
transponder. I purchased an E-Z Pass transponder while we were in Virginia and
it was well worth it as we could drive through the toll booths without
stopping.
On Thurs, we arrived at Mt.
Desert Narrows Campground near Bar Harbor, Maine for a 3-night stay. We enjoyed
our first lob-stah dinner Thurs night at a nearby “lob-stah pound”. You pick out
a lob-stah and they cook it for you. We had to go on-line and look at a video
while we were waiting for our lob-stah to cook to see how to take it apart to
eat it. There was a process.
Friday we went into Bar Harbor and had lunch. It’s a small coastal town of around 5,000 residents, but the population is much greater in the summer. It has great views of off shore islands and the Atlantic and has many restaurants and gift shops.
After lunch we visited
Acadia National Park, high on our bucket list. Acadia is celebrating its
centennial year this year as it was established as a national park in 1916 by President
Teddy Roosevelt. Acadia is the only national park on the East coast and contains
the highest point on the East coast, Cadillac Mountain. Although busy, it definitely
didn’t have the crowds like Yellowstone. We were surprised to see so many
people at Sand Beach in the park, especially since the water temperature was
only 54-degrees. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Acadia.
Today we went back to
visit Bar Harbor and to buy my Acadia Centennial tee-shirt. Then we drove west about
40-miles to Bangor for lunch and a visit to Stephan King’s mansion home. His mansion,
in the old historic district of Bangor, was architecturally interesting. We especially
liked his black wrought-iron fence decorated with spiders, bat-winged
creatures, and a three-headed reptile.
Tomorrow we head to Freeport, Maine for a 3-night stay.
Steve & Julie Cornelius
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