we hit the road after work on friday 8/14/2009...stopped in fishkill new york for some sleep...then back on the road making it to bar harbor maine on saturday. we stayed at the quimby inn, shopped at some favorite "home grown" stores, had pizza & brew at "rosalie's", had breakfast at "two cats", visited cadillac mountain in acadia national park, took a whale/puffin cruise, walked along the shore path, hiked around jordan pond and had popovers at the jordan house...mmmm...popovers!!!
some of the memorable things include:
- the traffic cone brigade (put the cones down, then pick the cones up, then put the cones down, then pick the cones up, and on and on...) in pennsylvania...the highway going up was all about traffic cones, but there wasn't really any road work!!!
- seeing rock doves being rock doves...really climbing a vertical rockface...really!!!
- saw a moose's back in a marsh/pond area that we drove past
- saw porcupines...but they happened to be in the form of roadside "gut bundles"...
- had a bat fly around while having a pizza at "rosalie's"...a fellow patron calmly took his scarf and gently tossed it over the frantic bat...carefully, thoughtfully took the bat out the door and opened the scarf to release the bat...then the bat immediately flew in front of an oncoming truck, gaining loft in just the nick of time...such drama!!!
- beers at "carmen verandah"...nasty place!!! won't go back!!! dirty, filthy, grungy, icky place!!!
- it was hot in new england...in the 90's...can you believe it!!!
- we saw a cormorant up close while we hiked around jordan pond...very cool!!!
- mmm...popovers...served by "borat" at the jordan pond house..."take one popover, we don't leave the basket with the guests...you each take one!" (popover nazi...just like the soup nazi!)
