Day 12: Island Pond State Park, VT, to Bar Harbor, Maine.

At last! After about 4500 miles since October 1st, we have driven almost as far as you can go in the continental US. We're at Bar Harbor, Maine, where we will tour Acadia National Park tomorrow. We may also drive up to Quoddy Head, which is about 100 miles north. This is the eastern most point in the continental US. Since we've often visited Cape Blanco, in Oregon, which is the western most point in the continental US, we think it is pretty cool to be so close to Quoddy Point. Today we again saw great fall foliage, lots of old, historic buildings, passed by dozens of cemetaries, and dipped our hands in the Atlantic Ocean from our campground here at Bar Harbor. We also ate our way through Maine today; finding a vendor of home-baked bread and jams alongside the road, we did stop and spent a small fortune on some good food and a full quart of genuine maple syrup. That's worth a fortune back home; it takes 40 gallons of sugar maple sap, boiled down, to make 1 quart of syrup. That's a lot of effort....but there's nothing quite like it. Nor like the wild Maine blueberry jam we bought (and ate half of already----and the rest will disappear tomorrow).  We append a few pictures before turning in for the night.

 Central/eastern Maine as we drove through back country enroute to Bar Harbor.

 Caren getting her hands into the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Pretty waterfall in Maine near Groten Notch.

 Sunset over the Atlantic (an island offshore) from our campground near Bar Harbor.

We may have to break this law on our return trip should funds run short. We saw this at a very nice Visitors' Center near Bangor, Maine. We have been amazed at some of the signs we've seen on this trip.