At 7am the road to Bar Harbour is an easy drive. The morning was beautiful and I arrived on the island where Bar Harbour is located just as the residents were getting going for the day. It was great to see it without the crowds. Even though there were few people about, there was a guy out walking who came over to talk to me. He was a motorcyclist as well, but was traveling by car on this trip. We compared notes for a bit and he helped by taking a picture of me with Bar Harbour in the background. Bar [View Full Entry]

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Odometer: 35146km In the morning I had to wait for the rain to stop and the streets to dry a bit before heading off, but I finally got underway by lunch time. I needed a little oil for the bike and ended up getting some help at Farris Power Sports on the outskirts of Augusta. It was one of those places run by seasoned motorcyclists. They were very good to me and hunted up some new oil dregs from several containers and charged me nothing. As I topped up the oil, another motorcyclists came over to talk. I met John, told [View Full Entry]

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I've never met so many japs in my life! however probably not the ones which you are thinking of. So.......all the kids have been here for a little while now and I come to find out that alot of them are really spoilt! Jewish American Princesses is the way they are described!Spoilt beyond belief, it's crazy! For those of you who thought your shoe wardrobe was ridiculous (as in quantity) you'd be choking to when you saw what a young 14yr brought to camp (thats in quantity and quality) i was like "oh my goodness" and they were like "oh my [View Full Entry]

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We left camp for a few days and actaully went and "camped". It was exactly how all of you picture an american camping in the woods with the usual fireside scary camp stories at night. On the second night, it was a perfectly cloudless night sky, stars were twinkling, infact it was a really good temperature for baking cookies (if you were baking cookies) and everyone was huddled around the camp fire - then Zhang blurted out in a funny chinese/tongan accent "SCARELY STORLY" - i'll translate that for you "scary story". All these scary stories then filled my head - [View Full Entry]

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Thats a little exaggerated, It wasn't that bad! infact it was alot of fun aside from the growth that is now cultivating on my right leg. I'm not sure that river is totally safe to wade in. Camp is about to get underway and all the kids are due in a couple of days. The Camp is pretty flash, If you guys just think of all the Movies that have a summer camp in it then your far on your way to knowing what this place is like. Although it says camp, the cabins 5 star bungelos are very impressive and [View Full Entry]

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LOCATION: Acadia to Lubec, ME Acadia NP. Again we thought we would do some hiking but it was a downpour all day. So we drove into Bar Harbor and did the tourist thing for a while. We visited the Abbee Museum, a Native American Museum of the area , quite interesting. We continued our drive to the Eastermost town in the US---Lubec, ME. We drove out to view the West Quoddy Lighthouse, the easternmost point of land in the USA. The winds had to be 50 mph plus, and the rain was steady, we tried to get some photos. Then on [View Full Entry]

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LOCATION: Camden to Acadia Camden Hills SP was a lovely area and we hoped to hike and bike, but the rain got in the way. We walked through Camden in the early morning. Camden is a harbor town built on a river and has a panoramic view of Pennobscot Bay, cute little shops, etc. We drove back to Camden Hill SP and up to Mt. Battie and tried to get some photos, a bit foggy and rainy. Undaunted we continued onto Belfast (guess how it got it’s name) another harbor town with wonderful shops. Off we continued to Acadia NP for [View Full Entry]

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Last Day in MA and Traveling North June 4, 2006, Sunday. We met with our kids and grandkids to tour Boston. We got the trolley into town and visited the aquarium. Our lunch stop was at Fanieul Hall, we all enjoyed a different ethnic specialty, before we started out on a trolley tour of Boston. We returned to the Cape via the bus. Monday, June 5. We are on our way to Maine. We packed up and left the Cape driving to Maine. Our first stop was Freeport. We walked around the town and visited the outdoor shops. Bob found [View Full Entry]

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LOCATION: Boston and Maine DATES: June 4, 5, 6, 2006 TITLE: Last Day in MA and Traveling North June 4, 2006, Sunday. We met with our kids and grandkids to tour Boston. We got the trolley into town and visited the aquarium. Our lunch stop was at Fanieul Hall, we all enjoyed a different ethnic specialty, before we started out on a trolley tour of Boston. We returned to the Cape via the bus. Monday, June 5. We are on our way to Maine. We packed up and left the Cape driving to Maine. Our first stop was Freeport. We walked [View Full Entry]

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We battled through the snowstorm in Maine while driving to a social function. In the car my sister, her husband and I were frantically trying to stay warm before we made a dash through the driving snow and into the venue. We awoke the next morning to find the whole neighbourhood blanketed in 9 inches of perfect snow providing a beautiful backdrop with an outside air temperature of -17 degrees celcius. Wait a minute now ... was this some kind of vivid dream? I'm from Australia and I have never experienced anything like this before! But that is one of the [View Full Entry]

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