Trip to Maine - Post #1: Overview

This year, for family vacation, we took a long road trip to Maine. It was a ten day road trip to Maine in mid-July that took us through several new states we had never visited. For all of us, the states of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont were all new. For my wife and kids, Pennsylvania was also a new state. I've visited PA a few times during my grad school years for conferences and telescope observing sessions. We had never been to the north-east U.S. before and wanted to check it out, thus the rationale for a vacation to Maine.

We spent four nights in Portland, exploring Portland and the southern coast of Maine. We then drove further northeast along the coast up to Acadia National Park. We stayed in Ellsworth and spent a couple of days exploring Acadia. Loved the trip! There was so much to do, so much to explore, and so much delicious seafood to eat! On the way how we took an alternative route home so we could drive through Vermont. A beautiful drive through the Green Mountain National Forest.

Over the next few weeks I'll share many of the cool things we saw and did while in Maine. Maine is a vacation destination that I highly recommend! Absolutely beautiful! Our kids loved it and we loved it and we want to go back!