{"id":1482,"date":"2015-06-15T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:51:32","slug":"monday-june-15-rutland-vt-to-bar-harbor-me-now-1919-miles-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/15\/monday-june-15-rutland-vt-to-bar-harbor-me-now-1919-miles-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, June 15, Rutland, VT to Bar Harbor, ME (now 1919 miles total)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was another day that was mostly driving–the smaller roads in the
\nnortheast take a while, but we also had quite a bit of Interstate travel.
\nWe drove from Rutland through Vermont and New Hampshire to the coast of\u00a0Maine, gradually driving out of the rain, and stopped in Portland for a walk\u00a0through the old harbor area (pretty, but in a touristy kind of way) and
\nlunch–I had a very yummy seafood chowder and mark a pretty unexciting
\nchicken sandwich, and we both had lovely hand-churned ice cream afterwards. \u00a0We went a little further on the interstate, but near Brunswick turned east\u00a0to go along the coast on highway 1, through all the little coastal towns. \u00a0Since it was still drizzly, we didn’t stop anywhere, but they are cute–lot\u00a0so Victorian downtowns and B&Bs. We saw one place we’ll return to–about an\u00a0hour from here in Bar Harbor, maybe–but it was after 4 pm and we were eager\u00a0to get off the road. So we drove on to Bar Harbor and started looking for a\u00a0hotel, since we wanted to see the views and options first rather than\u00a0booking on line. We eventually settled on a cheap revamped 50s hotel
\nwithout much of a view, because it is just a mile from downtown but pretty
\nquiet and charming in its 50s sort of way. We checked in and walked to the
\ntouristy downtown area, which also features access to a sandbank “bridge” to\u00a0an island that emerges only when the tide is low, and walked over and back\u00a0(two hours later we checked again, and it had disappeared–always
\nfascinating, especially since we heard that some tourists just don’t get it
\nand regularly get stuck on the island). We found ourselves a mediocre pizza
\nrestaurant and walked around town a bit–I needed a rain jacket because we
\nactually managed to forget mine, and we found a tide-me-over. Then we met\u00a0up with our friend Richard Loutzenheiser from Hastings, who has a house here\u00a0and who is here this week with his wife and a family friend. He gave us a\u00a0bunch of travel tips and we’ll meet up with them all on Wednesday. We\u00a0walked home and were in bed by 10 pm again!<\/p>\n

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  This was another day that was mostly driving–the smaller roads in the northeast take a while, but we also had quite a bit of Interstate travel. We drove from Rutland through Vermont and New Hampshire to the coast of\u00a0Maine, gradually driving out of the rain, and stopped in Portland for a walk\u00a0through the old … Continue reading “Monday, June 15, Rutland, VT to Bar Harbor, ME (now 1919 miles total)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadtrip2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}