Bar Harbor

We left our motel en route to the visitors center for Acadia National Park, missed our first turn added a few miles and finally made it to the visitors center. Rudy picked up an old guys lifetime pass the US National Parks.  We were leaving the center and a couple, responding to Rudy's  Sierra Nevada jersey, asked if we were from California.  Yes, where? Santa Rosa. They had previously lived in Santa Rosa and went to same health club where my wife Mary works.  Small world.

What a day at Bar Harbor. Weather was absolutely wonderful.  We rode the park loop trail to Jordan Pond, had lunch. We had a delightful lunch, (Andrea our waiter was from Sunnyvale) and we took some photos of butterflies and hummingbirds outside our window at lunch. . We the rode the Carriage Road back to the park exit and downtown  to the Thirsty Whale for a beer. A lady walked in we had seen on the ride.  I had commented what a beautiful day it was when we rode past her and she said we won the lottery.  She used to live in Livermore and now lives on Cape Cod.  Wonderful views of the ocean along the ride.  Rudy took photo of a pair of eagles.

We took the free shuttle back to the motel with plans to write blog etc.  I went to the office to ask about local dining and talked to Camile and Darren, owners of the Belle Isle where we were staying, for half an hour.  On their suggestion, we ordered delivery from local place.  A knock on the door, wow that was fast, no it was Klaus Hohle also staying at the Belle Isle who is on a bike trip around the world with his wife Doris.  Check out www.hoehles-challenge.de for infor on some serious bikers. Klaus is 72 and has done the Iron Man in Hawii 7 times and their route on their trip around the world is incredible. After a great conversation with Klaus about their trip he left.  A few minutes later another knock on the door, our food? Nope Klaus and Doris. Another interesting conversation (our food arrives in middle of the conversation).
We ate. It was late no blog yesterday.  We did 37 miles for the day.