Camden Maine

Main’t Misbehavin’

 

 

 

One and a quarter pound lobster, clam chowder, and corn chased with a wheat beer.  We’ve just finished three days in Bar Harbor, Maine.  Here are a few photos.

Question: Does this look like warm or cold weather?  Answer: almost always cold and windy near the water but warm hiking in the mountains.

Windy Maine.

Bar Harbor sits on the northern end of Mount Desert Island.  Here’s sunset over the bay.

Yes, the water is cold.

For our first walk, we hiked up Gorham Mountain, a 525 foot peak.  525 feet doesn’t sound very high but it is 525 feet above the sea that you can see below you.  I think the Twin Cities are around 900 feet above sea level.

The Aysgarth Station B and B has been completely full (six rooms) for our three night stay.

The house cat, Asticou, spends some time outside in the front yard on a leash . . .

. . . and some time rubbing on the legs of guests.

This is Somes Sound, an inlet/fjord on the western part of the island.  The sound has tides like all of the ocean shores—11 to 13 foot tides!

The hiking has been good.  This morning we will attend an Episcopal Church service (no Lutheran church in town) before heading out to Rockport down the coast from here.  More later. 

*****We watched Ghana and Germany not beat each other yesterday afternoon. . . poor Christoph.  Poor, poor Christoph

South bubble mt. Live from Acadia Natl Park

Just a Few Photos From The East Coast

 

This is Trinity Church and the John Hancock Tower in the Back Bay of Boston where we stayed the first two nights.  Hancock is the tallest tower in the northeast and is not even located in downtown where most of the other towers stand.  It was built in the 60s before cities understood what massive skyscrapers that sit on enormous footprints would do to the urban fabric.  Having said that, let me just admit that I love the juxtaposition of 19th century and 1960s. This is where the Boston Marathon finishes.

We discovered the North End.  Dad Williams insisted we would love this warren of tiny streets and Italian restaurants on every corner.  So far, we’ve eaten awesome food twice in the North End.  We might go back tonight. . .

The State House.  We did a self guided walking tour just steps ahead of a large group of fifth graders.

Ben Franklin’s parents are buried here.

Another juxtaposition of old and new in this square across from Paul Revere’s House.  Yes, Paul Revere’s wooded house from the 1770s still stands.

This is the Leonard Zakim bridge that opened a few years ago as part of Boston’s Big Dig project that buried 1.5 miles of the elevated Interstate 93 that used to slice through downtown.  Right below where we stand the bridge converts to a tunnel.  The space formerly occupied by the elevated freeway is now the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a linear park that we walked across and through several times.  Good move Boston even if it did cost billions of dollars.

Boston, along with claiming the rights to the oldest of everything in America, has the oldest subway.  So far we’ve only used the green line repeatedly and busses which are covered on our Charlie Card weekly subway pass.  Hope everyone’s having a good week!  More photos to follow.

Sunset over Fenway