How do you make a 3 hour car ride home with little kids feel longer?…stop along the way for another 3 hours. Sounds like a terrible idea on paper but we didn’t plan it that way and sometimes those are the best memories. We wouldn’t have mapped out a layover as long as the ride but, it just worked out that way and in the end it was a wonderful way to wrap up another Maine staycation. Where did we go…
Roque Bluffs might have the title for the coolest state park name here in Maine. Most people, even many Mainers, say “what and where is that?” For the longest time we called this Rogue Bluff until finally we realized it was a Q in Roque and not a G. If you’ve been following along for a while, you might be wondering why we haven’t visited this state park after multiple trips over the years to the downeast region. Our goal…
Canada hugs more than half our state and if you toss in the ocean we are surrounded mostly by an international border or water. If your plan is to pack up and move to Canada, just know that if you cross the border via the F.D. Roosevelt International Bridge, Campobello Island is as far as you’ll get by car. You’d have to jump on a boat to get anywhere else in Canada. This almost makes it sound like visiting this…
This trip was planned but then postponed back in the fall. The reason? We just didn’t have it in us after a very busy summer and a big trip in September, so we scaled back to something else and it worked out perfectly. This time around, we were counting down the days to pack up the car and hit the road. The destination wasn’t a quick one and when delaying the trip we didn’t take into effect that…
In 2016, almost 14% of the US population went on at least one camping trip during the year. Half of these current campers were exposed to camping as adolescents and the average age of a first time camper is 10 years old. There are a lot of fun facts in the 2017 American Camper Report. The 14% recently came up in an economic impact study presentation, which then led some late night googling. If you’re ever bored, here are some…
And we give Cobscook Bay State Park 10 Rubies! Wait, rewind, sorry for jumping to the end, but you will see that we fell in love with this park. So, from the beginning…the GPS says this park is 4 hours from our home in Portland, but in actuality, with a cranky car baby you need to tack on another 90 minutes or so to factor in stops. We even passed on watching the eclipse during the ride home because Eloise…