Eastward Bound

After leaving Canada we spent a couple days in upstate New York near the sweet little town of Clayton.  The campground had the best showers, which has inspired me to dedicate a future blog to designing the perfect campground bathroom, shower, and dishwashing facilities.   But today I’ll stick with our less mundane experiences on the trip

We had a great meal at The Hops Spot in Clayton and had a lovely afternoon at Garland City Beer Works—Clayton Taproom.  The beer was good (I don’t usually like beer but Colleen’s coconut porter was yummy) and the place has a friendly feel to it.  The beers are named after the owners, their brew master, and their dogs!   Colleen even put the Bears game on tv for me

From there it was on to New Hampshire where we stayed at Franconia Notch State Park. We hiked the Flume Gorge one morning.  

We started another hike that afternoon but the terrain was similar to Devils Lake, giving me a small flashback to my “incident” there in June so I didn’t get too far. (See Got Bliss post from June 12). The good news is that I seem to be getting over that with hikes at our next stop:  Acadia National Park!

Here at Acadia we have driven to the top of Cadillac Mountain:

Beautiful 360 degree views from up here,

hiked the Ocean Path, Jordan Pond:

and here,

Mt. Gorham, 

And here…

Lower Harbor, and The Anvil.

And …well you get the idea.

We ran into some of my friends from home at our campground without realizing until recently we’d planned trips that would overlap here!

Small world indeed!

Acadia is truly a gem.  Parts of the park are very busy but the Schoodic Peninsula area is much quieter and the terrain is quite different

Sunsets at the beach near our campground!

Tomorrow we plan to hike another area in Acadia then head out for more adventures the next day.

Thanks for hitting the road with Got Bliss.