September 23--Bar Harbor

Brrrrrrr!!!!! The heater didn’t work last night, but we had our sleeping bags zipped together, and were able to cuddle up for warmth. We were actually warm during the night, but it was cold outside. We got up early, packed up, and got on the bikes and headed to breakfast. Unfortunately, the temperature was 34 degrees, and didn’t warm up for the first 100 miles or so. We found the first place that had coffee and breakfast and we stopped to warm up and add layers.

Lower NB is beautiful, and we made it through customs without event. There was no request to remove helmets like the last time we came into Canada with Kevin. And there was no request to open up the trailer and examine the contents. Cool!! Unfortunately, Steve didn’t get to see a whole lot of the scenery coming down from the border. The road had too any blind curves, rolling hills and damaged sections of pavement for him to look around.

Upper Maine was beautiful, and we found lots more trees that had turned color. We are sorry that we missed all of the most beautiful colors that are yet to come, but glad we came when we did. Many parks and campgrounds were closing just as we came through and the temperatures would have been much colder if we were coming through any later in the season.

We also found a Home Depot and got another heater, and this time we saved our receipt! Tonight we will be warm!

We got to Acadia National Park today around 2 p.m. and are camped at Bar Harbor Campgrounds. Right across from our campsite is a field of wild blueberries, so I picked some to have with my yoghurt tomorrow morning. The town of Bar Harbour is a place made to fit our friend Phyllis to a T. Lots of shops, wineries, spas, brew pubs, and bicycle trails. We talked to some folks today from Arizona who now work at the campground we are staying at. They said they came up here a few years ago and spent 3 days, then stayed another 3 days, then another, until they discovered they had spent the whole summer here. So they got themselves a summer job working at the campground, drove their class A up here, and have stayed each summer after that.

We had great ribeye steaks for dinner tonight at the local brewery and are now tucked in to our warm tent for the evening. Tomorrow we plan to tour Acadia Park! Thursday we are pointed towards Jon and Lori’s place in NH.