{"id":509,"date":"2015-05-21T16:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2015-05-21T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T23:33:14","slug":"acadia-national-park-wednesday-may-6-thursday-may-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Acadia National Park (Wednesday, May 6 &#8211; Thursday, May 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our first day in Acadia National Park, we spent the day driving around the Park Loop. We started the day by dropping\u00a0by the visitor center to buy a park pass. While we were there, some friendly park employees\u00a0told us\u00a0about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eparks.com\/store\/product\/22515\/Passport%C2%AE-To-Your-National-Parks\/\">National Park Passports<\/a> (you can stamp them\u00a0at each national park you visit). Since we are planning to visit many national parks in the future, we picked up one.<\/p>\n<p>Early in\u00a0the day, we were feeling adventurous and attempted to hike the steep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acadia.ws\/beehive.htm\">Beehive trail<\/a>.\u00a0Alas, I was too out of shape to make it to the top, so we turned around and attempted the much flatter and easier\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acadia.ws\/jordan-pond.htm\">Jordan Pond trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After completing the Park Loop, we drove to the coast guard lighthouse at Bass Harbor and then returned to Bar Harbor for the night.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t a lot of restaurants open late in Bar Harbor.\u00a0For dinner, we stopped at two places that we saw were still open, the Side Street Cafe and the Thirsty Whale.<\/p>\n<p>On the second day, we picked up lunch from Rooster Brothers in Ellsworth\u00a0on our way to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schoodic_Peninsula\">Schoodic Peninsula<\/a>\u00a0where we saw more Maine coastline and ate our lunch. Next, we drove inland to\u00a0Bangor to see a very large statue of\u00a0Paul Bunyan. Finally, we ate dinner at The Red Barn in Augusta before settling in at the wonderfully named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepytimemotel.com\/\">Sleepy Time Motel<\/a> in Auburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our first day in Acadia National Park, we spent the day driving around the Park Loop. We started the day by dropping\u00a0by the visitor center to buy a park pass. While we were there, some friendly park employees\u00a0told us\u00a0about National Park Passports (you can stamp them\u00a0at each national park you visit). Since we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryonross.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}