More travels in the East

I feel as if I have been away forever but it's only been two and a half weeks in reality.  Right now I am in Montreal after a trip to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.  It was a great time.  And needless to say I collected a few rocks as well.

Our trip began with a little Vermont and then into New Hampshire where we stopped at a beautiful hotel called The Balsams.  That is the first place that voting results come in during American elections- Dixville Notch.   It's a very tiny population there in November.

From there we went to Gorham, New Hampshire.  When I was a child I went there lots because my aunt and uncle owned a tourist business there called Cabintown. They sold it long ago but where we stayed was just down the road and I think I saw where it used to be, but the house looks very different now so hard to know... The next photo is taken from where we stayed.  We were very close to Mount Washington, which is famous as being the windiest place on top of it in the continental United States. 

Our next stop was Bar Harbour.  Bar Harbour is on the Atlantic Coast of Maine.  It was once a place rich people spent their summers.  You used to also be able to take a ferry to Nova Scotia but not anymore.  We had a beautiful view of the ocean from our hotel room.  Here is a view from the village of Bar Harbour.  Bar Harbour is in Acadia National Park which is absolutely beautiful.

Here is a view of the swimming pool at our hotel and the beautiful scene we saw from our room. 
After a night in Bar Harbour we drove up to New Brunswick stopping in the town of Eastport, which is the farthest east town in Maine.  They once fished for sardines there.  I think I will break this off here.  Next blog will be about New Brunswick and the neat place we visited there.