From The Ocean to The Mountains

We left Rockland early Friday morning and drove two hours along the curvy coast of Maine on our way to see the town of Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor is on Mount Desert Island along with Acadia National Park. 

I honestly knew none of that before Thursday night. I just knew Bar Harbor was one of the places you are supposed to see when you go to Maine. Wow! Is it ever something to see!

We first turned in the entrance of Acadia National Park just a few miles after crossing onto the island. One of the first overlooks sits above Frenchman Bay. 

Cadillac Mountain/Acadia National Park

The next major stop was Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. 

It is only about 1500 feet above sea level but if offers an incredible view of the surrounding islands, bays and ocean. 

Then we drove the loop of Acadia National Park it is absolutely beautiful. 

Bar Harbor

Then we headed into the town of Bar Harbor. Like Camden and Rockland Bar Harbor is a town that reminds me of Gatlinburg with a harbor. 

It is gorgeous!

Blueberry soft serve. 

Maine and Into New Hampshire

Then we headed cross country toward Vermont. We drove hard the rest of the day and finally landed in a roadside motel in Gorham, New Hampshire. 

Our lodging options were very limited going through the mountains of western Maine and into New Hampshire. We were enjoying the drive as Kelly Jo looked up motels and called them when we had signal. Nothing was available. 

She finally found a motel in Gorham. It was not much to look at and was over priced but it was reasonably clean and the beds were good. It smelled pretty strong like a very recent treatment of bug spray but on the bright side, there were no bugs. 

I was able to sleep really good and woke up about 6:00 Saturday feeling very rested. It may have been the best night's sleep I have had on this trip. Maybe bug spray helps me sleep. 

Awesome Mountains

The rest of the trip through New Hampshire and the north to Lowell, Vermont was breathtakingly beautiful. I had always heard how beautiful it is up here and it is all true. We love this part of the country already. 

We arrived at the tent about 1:00 and then we to Pastor David DiZazzo's house to meet him and his family. Most readers are familiar with Pastor John DiZazzo that we preach for in Wichita. Pastor David is Pastor John's baby brother. They were raised in Vermont and Bro. David is the pastor of Lowell Congregational Church. 

Pastor John and his wife are here as well so we are having one big family reunion this weekend. I will have more about the DiZazzo's and tent revival tomorrow. 

Thanks for reading. 

Davy

View Out The Front Window August 10, 2014

Make sure you check out Odie's post from yesterday. Service under the tent last night was exciting. We are looking forward to great things today. Thanks for praying for us. 

We have been living out of suit cases this week so our view has been a blurry shuffle of hotel rooms. Not very exciting but it's been our view for the week. The food, fun, friends, fellowship and frivolity has been very exciting though. Check back through the posts the last several days to catch up if you have missed anything. I will try to post the events from the weekend on Monday and Tuesday.

This is the view out the front door and front window in our little cottage hotel north of beautiful Camden, Maine.

This is our view from the window of our room in Rockland, Maine. We could barely see the bay. It was so nice. 

This is the view from our door in Gorham, New Hampshire.

And our window.

This is our view from our awesome hotel in Vermont. We will post more about this place later. 

From the window. 

From the door. (That's for you Bro. Scott)

I hope you have a super great Sunday. 

Davy

47 States Now Under My Belt

Hello friends this is Odie coming to you today from New Hampshire. We have had an exciting week and it is about to get even better. We get to be in tent revival this weekend in Vermont and we are excited about that. 

Check the last several posts to catch up on all the fun and lots of good food. It has all been a blast! And the food has been yummy!! Can you tell I have enjoyed splurging this week?? 

I have so enjoyed getting to see this part of the United States of America. It is extremely gorgeous up here in the northeast! 

I am now only 3 states shy of having covered all 50 states. Wow, I never thought I would be so close to accomplishing that landmark. For a while it has been a far off goal of mine to visit all the states. Now I am almost there. 

This trip will add 9 new states for me. The new states for me have been Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and I will add Vermont today by God's grace.

I need to go to Alaska, Hawaii and Michigan of all places. I have lived 2 1/2 hours from Michigan most of my life but I have never been there. I have been in every other state in the lower 48 but not Michigan. What's up with that?

I hope you have a great weekend. I will leave you with a few pictures I found on my camera roll. Thursday in Camden, Maine we visited a leather shop. Dad tried on a hat and I let him use my phone as a mirror. He left me these. 

I Love you, Dad!! Thanks for an awesome trip. You are the best!!

Odie