Finn took full advantage of all the wonders Maine has to offer. She started her trip by heading to the coast, to lovely North Haven. Then, she headed north on Rte. 1, seeing some coastal towns like Camden and Rockport and wound up in Bangor at her grandparents' house. A short stay there -with some tractoring in between- led her to hit Millinock, home to -of course- Mt. Katahdin and the Pelletier Logging Company. Pelletier has a show based on its logging operations on the Discovery Channel. They travel up and down the Golden Road, which we did too to get to our morning coffee, from Maine and their operations up to Canada.
At Mt. Katahdin, we hiked various trails that were on or near the Appalachian Trail. We didn't see any moose but did scout some geese, a fox, and some massive dung-perhaps from a moose or a bear. She also ate at the restaurant opened by the Pelletier family that will be featured on the third season of the show, which starts filming in the fall.
Oh, how can we forget?! The camp we stayed at suffered serious damage within hours of our arrival: the gas grill set aflame and lost all its plastic accessories. And two Newfoundlands came to visit -from I don't know where- and knocked down and destroyed a hand railing. I seriously considered telling the owner we knocked it down by simply holding it (there was lots of rot) because that tale makes sense. But I told him what happened: truth stranger than fiction.
Next we hit Bangor again and saw Paul Bunyan -pretty big fella. She wrapped up her trip to see Katie Coleman in wonderful Bucksport and had brunch in Ellsworth, a really fun town with great breakfast!
Lots of swimming took place and Finn got her first ever boat ride.
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