Boston – Museum & Goodbyes

Our last few days in Boston were full of museums and restaurants. Our first stop was the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a museum in a big city (PHX and Tucson don’t necessarily qualify) and I forgot how BIG museums can be!  We spent about three…

Boston – Sunshine & Celebrations

After our wonderful time in Bar Harbor, we headed down to Boston.  The drive to Boston was much longer so we decided to split it up by having a “destination” in the middle of the drive to give us something to look forward to (see: Kennebunkport). A few months before the trip we had watched…

Bar Harbor & Acadia National Park

*Proposal story alert! (at the end)* After our time in Portland, we made the trek up the Maine coast to Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor is home to Acadia National Park, one of America’s largest national parks with about 50,000 acres. We stayed at a cute little B&B called Shore Path Cottage.  It gets its name…

Portland – The Last Days

Quick real-time update: apologies for delays in posting, we headed up to Bar Harbor (Acadia) and didn’t have a good wifi connection.  As of today 10/5 we arrived in Boston and are catching up on posting.  Summary of our Bar Harbor coming soon! The weekend brought us even more boat adventures!  There are 222 islands…

Portland – Exploring & Beering

Our first full day that didn’t include travel, was dedicated to exploring the neighborhood. Our first stop of the day to fuel up was Holy Donut. Holy Donut sources most all of their ingredients locally from Maine, and their secret ingredient is mashed potatoes.  It sounds ~weird~ but they’re so delicious!  They also have lots…

Day One – FOOD (Portland)

Settling in