Route 1 to Bar Harbor, Maine. September 1, 2009
Gregg, the General Manager, at Bentley’s gave us directions to Big Moose Harley Davidson in Portland. The service department at Big Moose installed a new rear tire while we ate breakfast that Monday morning. They even washed three days of rainy road grime off Bill’s bike. While at Big Moose’s we pulled out our paper maps and had some fellow customers help plot our course north on highway 1 and 3 toward Acadia National Park at Bar Harbor. Along the way to Bar Harbor we learned about the Penobscot Expedition of 1779. The bridge behind us in the picture was taken at a point on the trail where American Colonist fought a disastrous battle against the British during the Revolution. The failure caused the Colonist to sink or burn over 40 ships to keep the British from taking using them. Along highway 1 and 3 there were many roadside signs advertising fresh wild blueberries. This area had wild blueberry everything including blueberry soda and beer...