Bar Harbor Maine

We arrived in Bar Harbor Maine last Wednesday and spent the next day getting settled in and getting our bearings. We got up early last Friday and headed to the Bar Harbor, Maine downtown Village. It was a beautifl autumn day when we visited. Not down right cold, but definitely light coat weather. In addition, with the village being on the ocean and a light wind, it was really chilly when we arrived that morning. Brrrrrrrrrrrr! Fortunately, the winds died down a bit as the day moved on and with the sun out in full force, it turned out to be a gorgeous New England day.

We first headed straight to the Bar Harbor coast to check out the views. The ocean beaches are so different than anything we know of in Texas, or Florida--where there are actual sandy beaches. The New England coasts are rocky, with slick moss on rocks precluding the possibility of attempting to walk close to the water. A couple of other oddities we discovered about the New England coast is 1) the drastic change in tide. When the tide is low, the ocean is 100's and 100's of yards low, leaving unsightly areas for a majority of every day. If you had one of those million dollar homes with oceanfront, the majority of the day, your views are of...well, just mud. 2) There are no waves hitting the shores. Isn't that strange? It was a windy day when we were in Bar Harbor and there were none of the normal waves crashing into the shore as you see in Galveston, or some beach in Florida. Anyway, we thought it a little odd...(I'm sure there's a really good scientific explanation if we'd bother to check).

The Bar Harbor village we spent the day checking out was so quaint, for lack of a better word. Whereas Route 66 in Santa Fe had lot's of shops and unique shops, they were modern...not particularly historic. But this little Bar Harbor village was just a warm little village. There was also a very distinctly different people touring about. Whereas Route 66 had lot's of 20 & 30 somethings, Bar Harbor had lot's of older folks. As a matter of fact, Mark and I would probably be considered 'whiper-snappers'--not quite 'dry behind the ears'! Seriously, the crowded streets were pretty much a sea of white heads.

We really enjoyed our day in the Bar Harbor Village, but plan on venturing out tomorrow to drive up the coast of Maine and check out lot's of the local villages along the coast. This time we're taking our 'babies' Clyde and Duffy with us this time. Though Clyde is still just hobbling along on 3 legs right now, we want to let them walk around on the beach--assuming we can find any beaches with actual sand in Maine. There's so much to see up here and obviously not enough time to check too much out. We'd have to stay in one location a month or more to really check it out.

But of course, time is passing by quickly. It's hard to believe we've been gone this time since right after the July 4th holiday. It's also getting Very cold very quickly up here. But I just Love this weather. I don't mean I'd enjoy 6 feet of snow and -30 temps...but I absolutely love New England in the Fall for sure. It's dropping into the 40's at night now and temps during the day are in the upper 50's/low 60's. But the Campground we're in is right on the ocean. We can see the ocean from our bedroom window. And the winds blowing off the ocean make it much colder. It's definitely sweatshirt weather around here.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, most of the Campgrounds in the Northeast shut down in mid-October, so we've only got a few weeks to reach the south. We leave Bar Harbor this Wednesday and are heading to the Cape Cod area for a few days. As I've said many times, we're having a wonderful journey and are very blessed to have an opportunity to do this. Well, that's about the latest for now...I'll update again after our next journey up the Maine coast.