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Ottawa to Bar Harbor 2007

Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 9: Tips for road trips with kids

10 July 2007 Away we go

The end is near. The end of this series, that is. JK Rowling needed seven books to complete her magnum opus; mine will likely run to ten installments by the time I get it all out of my system. And like Rowling, I’m hedging on that. I might need an extra post or two to [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 8: Stalking Stephen King

9 July 2007 Away we go

We left Bar Harbor early on a sunny Saturday morning, with a plan to follow Route 2 back the way we came and stay once again in St Johnsbury, Vermont, for the night. But first we had one special stop planned – and another unexpected one that delayed us for a little bit. We were [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 7: Lobsters!

8 July 2007 Away we go

I’ve never been a huge lobster fan. Part of it is the fact that you must cook them live (let alone the supposed scream factor.) I remember my brother, quite young, being invited over to someone’s house for a lobster dinner. They put the lobster in the pot and started to cook it, and for [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 6: Pirate Golf and a bloggy playdate

7 July 2007 Away we go

Despite appearances which may be to the contrary through my rather extroverted blog personality, I’m actually rather shy. And the idea of meeting up with a total stranger, even one I admire as much as I admire Phantom Scribbler – one of my oldest and best bloggy friends, and someone I admire immensely – is [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 5: Acadia National Park

6 July 2007 Away we go

“So Dani, you’ve told us about how you got there and where you stayed. But what did you do in Bar Harbor?” Ah, I’m so glad you asked. (And like you, I’m a little afeared of how long this series is turning out to be. Part 5 and we’re only now talking about Bar Harbor? [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 4: Wherever I lay my hat, that’s my home

5 July 2007 Away we go

We chose Bar Harbor randomly. I’d just finished booking our annual Free Camping Weekend through the KOA in the 1000 Islands, and was futzing about with the KOA website, idly thinking in the March chill of sunny summer days. So when we chose Bar Harbor, we already had camping – cabin camping, that is – [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 3: An ode to Route 2 East

5 July 2007 Away we go

For weeks – scratch that, for months – before we left, I peered at various online and paper maps trying to get some feeling for the inscrutable red line that led from Vermont across the tip of New Hampshire and into the heart of Maine: US Route 2. You can’t discern a lot from a [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 2: New York and Vermont

4 July 2007 Away we go

Right up until a day or two before we left, we still hadn’t decided exactly which route we’d take to get to St Johnsbury, Vermont. My folks had recently gone to Lake Placid and highly recommended it, Nancy put the North Pole on my radar screen and I was curious about the Ausable Chasm. All [...]

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Ottawa to Bar Harbor Part 1: My digital scrapbook

3 July 2007 Away we go

As we drove across the top of New York State, into Vermont, across the tip of New Hampshire and into Maine – and back again – I sat for the entire trip with the new Nikon, a small notebook and pen, and a clutch of maps in my lap. I snapped a lot (a LOT!) [...]

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We’re back!

2 July 2007 Ottawa to Bar Harbor 2007

Four states, two provinces, six days, 1850 kms, 546 photographs… and we’re back! But, I’m not nearly organized enough to blog about it yet. Trust me, there will be much vacation blogging – soon! Overall, the trip was amazing. Truly, I couldn’t have wished for anything better. You’ll just have to come back later to [...]

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