Last night we landed in Bar Harbor, a quaint little town on the island of Mount Desert, Maine. Acadia National Park is a couple of miles from the downtown area and includes Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the Atlantic seaboard. The town was pumping with tourists given it’s a long weekend here for Columbus Day. That would be the holiday America celebrates which commemorates when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas.

It was a pretty nice drive to Bar Harbor with all the leaves changing colour. Periodically we would see a digital sign warning drivers to look at the road and not the falling leaves. Pretty hard not to keep stopping every five minutes to take photos but sometimes you just have to capture it in your head rather than on camera, although we may have stopped for a few pics as you can see.

After checking in to our hotel, we decided to head off for a walk into town and potentially up Cadillac Mountain. It was about 3pm……

As we started to head up the Mountain, MOD got a sore paw so we had to turn back. Fortunately.

I say fortunately because today we drove up to Cadillac and realised it’s about an 8 hour return walk. What were we thinking? Delirium from being in the car so long? Or just an inflated idea of how fit we are. Or aren’t. So we headed back to the hotel for movie night. They were showing Mrs Doubtfire with free popcorn! 🐷

The drive up the mountain this morning was pretty nice. And no, we didn’t walk. We are on an (Excel) schedule after all! And besides we probably had too much breakfast. Again. And may have needed a big prod up the mountain. Even though the mountain is only 1530 feet, which is low by the standards we now have, having been up much higher in Yellowstone, it was damn cool up there.

Ended up running to the peak, taking a selfie, jumping in the car and driving to Portland.  Which is where I now sit writing this. On the way from Bar Harbor to Portland we did find the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory, the tallest public bridge observatory in the world and the first cable-stay bridge in Maine. With a cost of $85m and a tower height of 447’, it is quite impressive to see. Apparently we are into bridges now. Well we do seem to have seen quite a few special ones in the last few days.

Tomorrow we drive to Boston. First stop, Boston Bruins-v-Ottawa Senators game. That’s ice hockey folks. Watch this space.