Today begins the last section of the trip that we found particularly interesting, and what felt away from our area of home. This whole trip has obviously been a huge amazing adventure, but the awe of landscape was fading as we were closely approaching the land of flat terrain. Nonetheless, we were excited to see this new National Park. We had left a hotel in the morning where they did not serve breakfast, so we had to find a sit down breakfast near the park. We settled on a local breakfast spot where during the day they serve lobster rolls. This was a standard breakfast and we tried to move it along quicker as we wanted to do an entire circular drive around Acadia park in the day and still have time for lunch in the town of Bar Harbor.
We started with a stop in the park of Acadia at the visitor center, and our goal for the morning section was to do two short hikes. These were the precipice lookout and Acadia Mountain. We did the Precipice hike early and were done by 11 after a short circular drive, and we thoroughly enjoyed this, as the hike itself was largely scaling rocks with metal bars to hang off of, which were at times quite thrilling to hike with! It was a short but strenuous hike which when at the top rewarded you with a vast view of the atlantic and the park itself, which during red leaf season I could only imagine would be even better. We decended and figured we would go to Bar Harbor for lunch for non other than a lobster roll, so we found a nice place for lunch and enjoyed the food there. We needed to head South but we were not done with our hiking as of yet for the day, so we headed to the Acadia mountain hike, and along the way stopped at a setting called Thunder cove in the park, which was an alcove of waves that crashed into the walls creating a growling thunder, thus the name. Pretty cool stuff.
This was almost the end of the scenic drive, before we reached the trailhead for a short hike to lookout mountain. The hike itself was short but ascended almost 800 feet so there was substantial effort put out by both of us to finish the hike, especially as the sun was getting lower and we still needed to find a hotel. Once we reached the summit we felt wonderful about our time there and had a successful day knowing we conquered all of our objectives. It was time to find a hotel, so we stopped in a hotel just outside of Boston, as we were to be southward of there in Cape Cod the next day. The hotel was cheap hotel off the interstate but was the perfect location to hit the ground running tomorrow.
EXPENSES
25 breakfast
61 lunch
2.99 sticker
7.81 coffee snack
81.75 hotel
14.47 taco bell
Total – 193.02