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A Morning in Portland, Maine

Our trip to the Maritime Provinces of Canada was coming to a close and we had to drive back to Boston for our flight home. By rearranging the itinerary to explore Halifax, Peggy’s Cove, and Lunenburg, we didn’t think we’d spend any time in Portland, Maine.

However, we found a way to squeeze a bit of time there. By powering through a six-hour drive from Saint John, New Brunswick to Portland (after taking the 2.5-hour ferry from Nova Scotia), we arrived in Portland around midnight. This left the next morning to explore the city before heading to Boston.

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Read more about the article Boston & Maine Itinerary (Including Acadia National Park)

Boston & Maine Itinerary (Including Acadia National Park)

This is the trip that started it all for our family. My spouse and I had enjoyed travelling, but with the birth of our children we did a lot of trips to visit family and an annual trip to the beach. We decided it was time for the four of us to go on a true vacation.

There are many styles of travel. In my family (and maybe because I grew up in a city of about 150,000) we tended to take city trips – New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal. On these vacations, I wasn’t allowed to do things I could do at home – like see a movie. We pounded the pavement to see everything there was to see – museums, walking around, eating local cuisines — definitely no sleeping in or hanging out.

Other people like to go to one place – maybe for an entire week. These trips are meant for relaxation, but after a while I tend to get bored. It was time to do the type of vacation I had grown up doing and to show our children the world. It was fun, exhilarating and now we’ve tried to incorporate at least one trip like this per year. This was our itinerary from June 2011. (more…)