This is the first of several installments chronicling my family's journey back to Maine. I plan to present the written account in several installments so as not to overwhelm the print sensitive reader followed in a few days with stationary and motion pictures with pleasing musical accompaniment.
Revisiting Maine
Summer 2008
Wednesday July 9, 2008
- Left at 7:45 and picked up son in Fishersville, VA; then traveled I-81/94/290/495 to Lowell, Mass. Arrived in Lowell Mass at about 8:30 pm.
The trip went well; however, we were chased by rain all through Pennsylvania. The highlight of the trip for my wife and daughter was our pass through Scranton, the TV home of Dunder-Mifflin.
The hotel was a bit run down, but there seemed to be some effort to remodel. While I was walking to the lobby, I happened to ride the elevator with this guy who turned to me and asked me if I was with the movie crew. I told him that I wasn’t. He said, he was with the set building crew. A little research uncovered the movie, This Side of Truth as being filmed in Lowell.
- Historic Site of Industrial Revolution
- Lowell, Massachusetts is a community that appears to be celebrating a revolution. We stayed at a Doubletree Hotel located right on the old canal in the center of town. From our hotel fourth floor hall window, we could see the nineteenth century canal locks. You can see the paths where animal power would tow boats from lock to lock.
Thursday July 10, 2008
Left Lowell Mass at about 9:00am. Arrived in Bar Harbor, Maine at about 3pm.
This is an old-fashioned 1950’s style motel. It’s meticulously cared for with clean outdoor units. We stayed in a suite with two rooms and a bathroom clustered with three other room units. Parking was right in front of our mini-unit. The complex had a laundry, pool and gift shop. At about $180 a night, this place was quite a bargain in Bar Harbor. One thing I liked about staying here was that the staff were extremely nice and helpful.
· Dinner at Poor Boy’s Gourmet Restaurant
We were famished by the time we got to this restaurant on the main drag in Bar Harbor. We had no reservation, but were assured of a table in a half hour. So we walked around some more. 50 minutes later, we got a cramped table for four. The food came relatively quickly, and we ate until we were stuffed. I had some kind of pasta dish. We were too stuffed to get their desserts.
· Acadia National Park Pass
The visitor’s center at Acadia is small but houses a realistic relief model of the entire park.
· Sunset on Cadillac Mountain
Nothing can fully describe this place. The mountain is only about 1500ft high, but it towers over anything around it. The views from the wide, granite knob are 360 degrees. You can see out into the Atlantic Ocean and west to the Mt Katahdin at the termination of the Appalachian chain. We watched the sun disappear on a crystal-clear evening. It slipped below the distant horizon at 8:09pm
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