The Cinnamon Roll Chronicles

Five years ago in Acadia, Daniel asked where he could see a Moose.  There answer was in Baxter State Park.  Apparently most of the Moose in Maine are up in Baxter, so this trip we made it a point to go to Baxter State Park.  After an amazing breakfast in Portland at place called The Sinful Kitchen (I highly recommend it, I had pineapple coconut stuffed French toast that was to die for) we started our journey to Baxter.  The park itself is only about 30 mins from a town, but once you get into the park you have to travel about 40 mins to your cabin or campsite, so once we were in – we weren’t coming back out until it was time to leave.  Also the AT ends in Baxter State Park at Mt. Katahdin.  We finally made it to our cabin about 3:30 or so.  It was really nice.  They are all primitive, no running water or electricity.  We were staying on what I consider a lake, but they call it a pond. You could ...

After driving across Vermont and tasting the best Maple Syrup of all time, we ended up in New Hampshire.  We were suppose to spend our last night camping for several days but it was raining as we arrived at the campground, so we upgraded to a cabin.  The campground was super old,  but had just been purchased and they were in the process of upgrading it.  It was really nice and at the nicest and hottest showers I have ever had at a campground.  I would gladly stay there again.  We had dinner at Black Mountain Burgers and it was really good too! The next morning we had breakfast at the White Mountain Bagel Company before starting our day exploring the White Mountain National Forest. We first stopped at the Flume Gorge.  It is a part of the North Franconia State Park.  It actually cost $16 each to hike 2 miles around the Gorge Loop.  At first I thought it was a little crazy, but it ended up being totally worth it.  The facilities includin...

For the last two days we have been exploring Vermont.  The drive from Lake George to Burlington was really nice and we saw lots of fun things that we would love to come back explore.  HEY Viv...we drove through this town.  Do you think they use Ticonderoga Pencils in Ticondergoa #teacherjokes. Burlington was a neat town.  I'll be honest when I say I think it would be more fun without a toddler.  Its just not very toddler friendly...in the way that there isn't whole lot of stuff that would be of interest or exciting to a toddler.  But it was nice. We explored Church Street Marketplace.  Our campground was really neat and nice.  It is run by the Burlington Parks and Rec. department and is right on Lake Champlain.  So we spent about our hour playing on the beach and in the water.  EG loved swimming.  We did visit Lake Champlain Chocolates and I got the best candy bar I have ever had in my entire life.  No pictures ...

Today we thought it was going to be a low key day.  And even though it still sort of was lower key than usual, we had a lot to do, and it all took longer than anticipated. One thing I have learned on these trips is that even though we have things planned, we have to be flexible.  And even more so now that EG is with us.  We originally had planned to go to the TR Inaugural Site on Saturday, but once we got to Niagara we realized there was no leaving and coming back.  Plus it our tour times for everything didn't allow for us to leave and come back.  So on to plan B...we would go to the TR site on Sunday before we left the area.  BUT it didn't open until 12pm.  We got up and found a place to eat breakfast.  It was called Eggperience.  I had crepes they were just okay.  I have a pic somewhere but really they weren't good enough to show a pic.  Found a Target to stop of for a few mins.  and then we went to the TR site.  It wa...