Road Trips and Hike Reports

Bar Harbor was a gorgeous place to drop anchor.  And since it was the only port that was too small for us to directly dock at, we literally did drop anchor there. Unfortunately, the health issues continue to plague our group and I was the only one well enough to go on shore.  I enjoyed the shuttle trips both ways.  It’s really weird to walk from a very large boat to a relatively small one while neither is anywhere near a dock.  The trip TO Bar Harbor I was on a contracted dinner cruise type boat (good sized) but on the way back to the ship I was on one of our ship’s own tenders which are really fancy lifeboats but somewhat better equipped.  For lunch I ate at West Street Cafe and had a spicy chicken sandwich and coleslaw.  Though there are a few deep fried items on the ship, they seem few and far between so it hit the spot as did the blueberry mule.   Other than the trips to and from and the lunch, Bar Harbor wasn’t my favorite.  Far more than an...

 I had found a different somewhat longer hike for us to do on the way between Brian's parents in Vermont and our get-away destination of Bangor Maine.  Unfortunately, All Trails and google maps don't really tell you if the destination is readily accessible in a passenger car.  In this case the trailhead was about 3 miles up a gravel road which quickly deteriorated.  After one nasty sounding but seemingly nor harmful scrape along the bottom of the car, we turned around and proceeded back on our route towards Bangor and found this hike instead. The hike itself was serviceable.  There was a very long section of narrow single (sometimes single tiny) split logs to go over an area that is prone to being wet.  The only only people we saw on the entire walk were 2 women coming back out, one of whom had slipped into the mud off one of the precarious logs.  Thankfully our journey over the logs was giggles and a close call maybe but nothing harmful.  I'd say...