Well, We made it! The East Coast, 3000 miles to the other side of the US! The ATLANTIC OCEAN! I have to say that it looks a lot like the Pacific Ocean where I'm from. This surprised us. We thought we might find, well, I'm not sure but something different. Instead there were lighthouses, sandy beaches with seagulls and craggy rocks and cold water. The Sandy beach at Acadia was really nice and we played in the waves and rocks and it was sunny but freezing. We found one thing that differed from our coast though... Maine lobsters! Big red delicious lobsters. I havd never had one before and Mom has a picture of me taking my first bite. YUM! But, I'm already lobstered out after a couple meals as it's rich and I am a steak guy. Pass the Heinz 57 and let's drive to Montana!
I had lots of fun imitating the accent of the locals at Bar Harbor, ME by Acadia National park and drove my parents crazy Ma, I need a Bahbah to get my haircut in Bah Habah before I look like a shaggy LLama. As we moved to Boston the accent got more tough guy and I had a harder time with that but my Mom does a wicked impression.
There were moose warnings all over Maine as the population has exploded there and we got to see some mangled cars the police set out to show you who loses when a moose hits your car...you do! We drove slow just in case.
The people here were kind of rude except two: the post mistress at the Bar Harbor post office was so nice! She told us how to use general delivery so people can send us things and letters. She had postcards from all over the world posted on wall behind her and we promised to send her one from somewhere pretty and far away. We will too. The second person who was nice was the lady at my favorite part of Maine...Sherman's bookstore. She told us about the book As Small as an Elephant which was amazingly about an 11 yr old boy named JACK who was traveling to Bar Harbor,Maine with his MOTHER and she disappears and he has to find her and goes on journey down coast to Boston area...JUST LIKE WE WERE> The author drove same roads we did and as we were in the RV reading it aloud we knew the places she was talking about so it was really cool. We got what we call "rock star" parking in Bar Harbor right next to bookstore downtown in their only RV parking spot. In summer millions of people visit here so I am sure they are worn out from tourists so I understand them being rude. I liked it here a lot and would come back or sure. Only this time we need a map because we almost got stuck under a bridge that was really low.
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