by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 7, 2018 | Generally Useful Stuff
This is a counterpart to our previous blog of a guide to those wanting to know more about the cruise ships docking in Bar Harbor. If you don’t want to interact with the cruise ship and passengers, this post is your guide for how to avoid the cruise ship scene....
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 31, 2018 | Generally Useful Stuff
While cruise ships come into Bar Harbor throughout the summer, the height of cruise ship season comes in September and October when cruises come nearly every day. Sometimes more than one are scheduled for a single day! If you want to know what’s going on related...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 24, 2018 | Top Five
There’s places to hike besides Acadia National Park? You bet and we covered them in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Today our final post about hikes you can do near Acadia National Park without being in it. The Kinglet Trail at the Alycon Center Location: Seal Cove...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 17, 2018 | Top Five
In our first post in this series, we told you about the five best local hiking trails that are not part of Acadia National Park. In writing it, we realized there are way more than five we wanted to talk about. Really–there are just so many good trails that it is...
by Nicole Ouellette | Aug 3, 2018 | Maine Advice
This semi-occasional column is written by Nicole Ouellette, a former advice columnist. Here are our local, Maine-related situations this week: Dear Gift MDI, I’m on a non-profit board with a total know it all… who doesn’t know anything. He talks at...