Heading Home

 September 10, 2015

When we originally planned this trip, we intended to go so many more places, specifically Nova Scotia and then ferrying to Newfoundland and back to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to ferry to Portland, Maine. Before we left Richmond, we eliminated Newfoundland—a land that we would very much love to visit, but we just did not feel we had enough time because the ferry rides took all day each way.

Last night, knowing that we were leaving PEI today, and we need to be home in a few days, we realized that we just couldn’t do it all—we spent too much wonderful time elsewhere and didn’t keep to a fixed schedule. Since today is our anniversary, Robin suggested something special—“Let’s go to Bar Harbor!” He knows how I love it here, and we both have always wanted to get back to Acadia National Park; we were here 28 years ago. I didn’t even think of Bar Harbor as a possibility, but Robin made reservations, and here we are, and we can’t wait to see everything tomorrow before we head south.

Joyce and Robin - 9-10-2015 - 32 years

Frenchman Bay is right across the road from our hotel; Acadia is a few miles east, and we have one day to enjoy it all.

We left PEI behind—land of lighthouses, little, white churches, little diversity, a lot of mussels and lobster, warm, friendly people, unique villages—and headed back across the Confederation Bridge for the mere sum of $45.50, but, as Robin says, it’s Canadian money, not American, so that makes it about $34. They built this wonderful bridge, so everybody who leaves the island must pay for it, but it was all good.

Back to New Brunswick and the endless highways and in just a few hours, we were in the northern Maine woods on a two-lane road that brought us through forests to Bar Harbor.

We discovered that the restaurant that we loved so much many years ago was gone—what a surprise! We had seafood at Fiddlehead’s, but the very best part of the meal was a large, thirst-quenching glass of real iced tea, which I haven’t had for almost two weeks. Robin got us a bottle of pinot grigio, and that was very good, but nothing beat the tea!