Acadia National Park in coastal Maine is one of the most visited parks in the United States, and welcomes more than two million visitors each year. Acadia National Park doesn’t wholly encompass Mount Desert Island, which took a bit of getting used to. We found ourselves driving through towns with private houses on our way from […]
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Travelling Maine with a Campervan: Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor is a charming little port town near Acadia National Park in Maine. My parents and I rented an RV in Montreal and drove down to Bar Harbor back in September. Bar Harbor has some small, narrow roads that are difficult to navigate with an RV. Thankfully, there is an RV parking area just […]
Bar Harbor Eats: Stewman’s Lobster Pound
Back in September, my parents and I rented a campervan in Montreal and drove down to Acadia National Park. Even though we were staying in our rented campervan, my parents wanted to have some fresh Maine seafood on the ocean so we headed to Stewman’s Lobster Pound, the only waterfront lobster pound in Bar Harbor. After […]
Meinhilde’s Travel Plans for 2015
Tomiko and I get anxious if we have vacation time with no travelling. Some families camp. Others go skiing. Some go to the cottage or just hang around the house. Our family’s thing was travel, especially when we lived in Saudi Arabia. Our parents met in Thailand, lived in Canada for a while, and then […]