We had stopped at our third dingy motel for the night in Calais. Crashed and exhausted from an early start and a long day, we slept soundly and awoke ready to go.
The ride was nice. Maine is okay. Not as cool as New Brunswick, but I think i’m bias. The day was really long, but we saw a few cool things along the way and made a day of 6 hours of riding tolerable.
Our first stop was a public boating dock that overlooked the Bay of Fundy. Oh whats that across the bay? NOVA SCOTIA. Seriously, one could take a 5 minute boat ride to Nova Scotia so easily, but for some reason you have to ride all the way to Saint John to get to Digby. There seems to be some sort of weird political phenomenon going on there.
Our second stop was on a Maine river on Route 1 along the coast. The fog was really thick for some reason (which kinda dampened the spirits) but the wildlife was really cool made for an interesting 20 minutes.
Our third stop was Bar Harbor. Or as Maine people call it: Bah Hahbah. We skipped all the annoying tourist spots in the City and went down to the harbor and ate some ice cream. It really was beautiful. At least a hundred boats were parked out in the water and along the docks. The sky had cleared up and all the fog was gone, and you could see all of the islands poking out of the water with huge sheer cliffs holding up tall evergreens. The people watching was plenty, and it was a good rest after 2 hours of Sveta.
After Bar Harbor we went to easily one of the highlights of the Trip: Fort Knox. Yes, it was named after the most useless Secretary of War in US history, but it was still a really cool place. The whole building was granite and brick, and the amount of places to shoot and the architecture was astounding. It had the feeling of a Harry Potter movie, and it’s labyrinthine layout got us lost a few times. There were no guides or fences, and you could explore every room you wanted to without any restrictions. There were only lights in parts of it, so we needed our flashlights to see some of the coolest passageways and rooms.
We went from Fort Knox to Bath. We didn’t see much of Bath, but it looked like a cool scene. It was right on a harbor and had a bunch of Victorian Era buildings.
The campsite we stayed at had been there for like 50 years but it wasn’t anything to nice. They had karaoke that made my ears bleed. Unfortunately, you could hear it from our campsite. It stopped at 930 though THANK GOD.
That was our last night camping, so we made the best of it. We burned all of our papers (there were many) concerning our trip. We set up our camp in record time, feasted on MREs, and called it a night. It was a good ending to a lot of camping. Our next stop? Connecticut to see the family after two weeks, and to swim in a lake and finally relax. Finally.
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