Acadia National Park

[lizard]

not only the favorite haunt of Doomcifer but perhaps the most cool place in the eastern united states, along with Tallulah Gorge and parts of the Smokey Mountains.

so I get my latest issue of Nat'l Geographic the other day, and what should it contain but...an article on Acadia Nat'l Park!

 

[Ellestin]

Oh man, this is viagra for your eyeballs

Have you been there yourself?

 

[Krilons Resa]

That is my favorite fucking place in entire world.

edit- looking top bump my thread.

 

[lizard]

yes...whenever my dad would get orders for a new duty station we would go back to MA and then NH, hang out with cousins and such....he used to insist on taking us to York Beach and even in the summer time the water was so cold you could feel your testicles trying to crawl up into your esophagus.

I should also confess that when I tore the pages out of the magazine I ripped off the lower corner so some of the pics are cropped, and some were two page photos but I only scanned one half of it...so get to your local library right now and STEAL THIS ISSUE!

 

[Krilons Resa]

I need to go there next Autumn. Fuck, I need to live there.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Im going back to Mount Desert Island in December or January. I havent been to Acadia in about 5 years, one of my favorite vacation spots.

 

[lizard]

the only thing that compares is when I went on my Kerouac journey across the country after I graduated, me, two buddies, a bag of weed, and we drove through the Rockies (as awesome as the Alps!) and then down through Utah and through Arizona's Indian reservations.

the Eastern mountains are supposedly far older than the rockies, so they lack the sharp cragginess but they are every bit as cool in their own way.

 

[lizard]

Im going back to Mount Desert Island in December or January. I havent been to Acadia in about 5 years, one of my favorite vacation spots.

one thing I really miss living here in the midwest is mountains. Shoot, I'd even settle for a few gently rolling hills Luckily Western PA is not far away.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

hehe, i love mountains, luckily, BC is like... ALLL mountains

 

[lizard]

you guys should consider going further up to Canada's maritime provinces. When I was a kid I used to visit some relatives in Nova Scotia and that was some purty stuff. You can take a ferry across the Bay of Fundy from Maine...pretty cool

Nova Scotia Street Gang

 

[lizard]

hey, who was it who was shopping for a digital camera?
here's National Geographic Traveller's Take:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/resources/st_camera0511/camera.html

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

twas me, already got my camera too.

and yeah, i see lots of bears, but i'm west coast.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

We use to take day trips to Nova Scotia too, it was only a 45 minute boat ride from Mount Desert Island. One of my most vivid memories from those trips is whale watching off the coast of Nova Scotia.

 

[NAD]

man that is gorgeous.

hey so does everyone in the world go on family vacations except for me? my family went to oregon in like 1987 and the only thing i remember is my dad becoming unglued because i finished his bottle of sprite. i don't think i left so. california for another 13 years, when i started taking vacations by myself.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

I've never been on a vacation in my life. Family or otherwise. Mostly cause we've always been struggling to keep a roof and food.

We used to run an oyster farm, still remember the time I nearly hit a grey whale as it surfaced about 11 feet from the boat, going around... 16/17 knots maybe? It's a work boat so not overly fast. It's lucky we weren't in the skiff, that thing takes forever to slow down. But yeah, we had a great look at it (and it rolled to look at us).

 

[Thanatopsis123]

That park looks great but I've seen a lot of Virginia and Arkansas that looks very similar.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

Forests here don't really get much in the way of fall colours, it's all evergreens. But it's really awesome to go camping under a massive douglas fir where you've got a 20 foot ceiling, and theres no snow for 10 feet in any direction and all the heat gets trapped in there so its nice and warm... yet outside the shelter theres like 5 feet of snow on the ground and its a fucking blizzard.