Nor' Easting

So, since I have no useful time to write anymore. It has been suggested that I could at least throw some pictures of our trip up on the site. I agree.

We started the trip flying into Boston and promptly headed to Maine, not sure where we would end up. Our plan was to find a place early enough to walk around get some dinner and that led us to Portland for the first night. We found a hotel and went out and I had my first taste of lobster that night.

We spent the night trying to figure out our next day, basically where we would end up. We had heard from others that Acadia National Park was a place not to miss. I couldn't agree more. We drove up that morning and drove and walked around the park most of the day. The views were incredible. (Remember to click on the pics to see more detail).

We started by going through the park and continued to stop every chance we had to look at the views. We got out at the Sandy Beach, to check out the low tide that afternoon.

Then were off to get to the top of Cadillac Mountain. The road winded up the mountain and it offered an entire view of the park and truly as far as the eye could see.

We also stopped at the Thunder Hole which lived up to its name. As the waves come into the shore, it goes into this rock and creates a loud thundering sound. Pretty neat to check out. We stayed the night in Bar Harbor and enjoyed a lovely view from our room of the harbor. We had hoped to see the sunrise over the ocean, but we choose to sleep in a bit instead.

We had hoped to spend the next day at Mt Washington, to ride the cog railway and see the sites, but they were not running the train that day, so we ended up driving straight through that day to Norwich, Vermont. but not before stopping back at the park to see a few more sites.

We arrived at our inn and promptly went to get dinner across the border around the Dartmouth campus. Enjoyed the evening but wanted to get rested for the big baking class the next day. Since the class was not until 1 in the afternoon we went to see some sites in the morning and stopped at the Quechee gorge park.

We wandered back to Norwich and went to school. We worked hard and each made four loaves, which we then had to figure out what to do with all this bread we had made.


The next day we went to Boston, dumped the car and took the subway around town the next couple of days. Lots to see and lots to eat in Boston. We walked pretty much the entire town it seemed. We spent time eating the Italian food in the North District a couple of times. We went to see some historical sites, like Paul Revere's silversmith shop, the Old North Church and also went to the Science Museum for a couple of hours so we could play with all the educational equipment made for grade schoolers, but we still had fun with it.

That them there highlights.