Our first three stops of the day were only a short distance from our hotel in Bartlet, New Hampshire. First on the agenda was the White Mountain Cider Company for fresh hot apple cider and fresh apple cider doughnuts. Yum! Next stop was the Mt. Washington Auto Tour. Mt. Washington is the highest peak in New England at 6,288 feet. The drive to the summit puts you well above the treeline and today there was 70 miles of visibility. The highest wind speed ever recorded was here back in 1934 at 231 mph. The building that the weather observers used at that time had to be chained to the ground to keep it from blowing away:
After the drive back down Mt. Washington we went to Wildcat Mountain and took a gondola ride to the summit. This gave us just another beautiful view of all the fall leaves and surrounding mountains.
Then it was time to head to Portland, Maine. For the first time on this trip we arrived at our destination before dark! We were able to spend some time out by the Atlantic Ocean at the Portland Head Lighthouse. Since we were there and had time we decided to see if there were any nearby geocaches. We ended up finding the very first geocache ever hidden in the state of Maine. It has been there for 10 years and has been found over 1000 times. After spending some time in the blustery wind by the Atlantic it was time for some chowder! We did a search for nearby restaurants and decided on Gilbert's Chowder House simply because of the name. Located on the waterfront in Portland, it did not dissapoint! We all had clam chowder in a breadbowl and it was first rate!
We are now checked into our hotel and have done our planning for tomorrow. It looks like Boston has hit the cutting room floor and we will not be spending any time there. We have found the time just goes by so fast and any time spent in the city just devours your time. Boston is a trip in and of itself.
So tomorrow we will be heading to Duxbury and Plymouth Massachusetts to visit the Mayflower replica and then we will be spending some time on the coast between Plymouth and Hyannis on Cape Cod. Here are few more fall foliage pics.
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