Mid-Coast, Maine Getaway Weekend: Recap #3

 Sunday was our third day in Edgecomb and we elected to skip the complimentary continental breakfast at the hotel to head up to Camden, Maine.  Along the way we stopped at Moody's Diner.  Not knowing it is a long standing national icon serving customers for over 90 years I didn't snap a photo, but I did have a yummy chocolate chip pancake to fuel up for our day of hiking.

We were heading to Mount Battie to hike a trail listed as "hard" on Alltrails.  It is a short trail; usually hiked in an hour but it is steep.  

This is the only photo of the trail I snapped as shortly after this I was using both hands to climb up... 

However, along the way there were little lookouts and the views were incredible.  These photos don't do it justice since it was a cloudy morning. 

You can see the entirety of the town of Camden nestled in the cove

There is a parking lot where you can drive up if you don't want to attempt the hike and at the very top is a lookout tower.

Looking off in the other direction to the rest of the mountains in the range

Edna Saint- Vincent Millay has a poem about this very area (and there was a neat plaque about it near the base of the tower). 

We found a different trail down the mountain that necessitated us walking back to our car along the side of the road but I was just fine with that as I wanted nothing to do with climbing back down the steep trail. (I am a wuss with a massive fear of heights). 

Once we arrived back at our car we drove closer to the center of Camden and walked around the charming town.  We checked out the boats in the harbor and ate lunch at Sea Dog Brewing Company

Much of this town is set above the water!

From the harbor we could just make out the tower we had been standing on.. do you see it? In this photos it is just slightly left of the big orange tree. 

There were some incredible gifts and unique items in the stores... but we only window shopped.  

I ordered clam chowder and coconut shrimp. 

We were back at the hotel mid-afternoon and ended up taking naps.  We went out for ice cream at Blanchard's again for our "dinner" (they were out of cookies this time!).  Then watched the sunset from our balcony and turned in early. 

It was such a good thing we did too as we were woken early the next morning... we could smell something burning.  So around 4/4:30 we were up and getting dressed and packing our bags.  Then our heat kicked on and the smell got so much worse!  We turned off the heat and took our bags out to the car. 

We vacated the room at 5 and went looking for staff to report to... only no one was there! The lights were off and the front desk room was locked up tight.  We tried unsuccessfully to call the few numbers we could find when my husband decided to venture back into our room and look through the guidebook they provided.  He found an after hours number to call and got an answering service. 

We sat in our car with the heater going debating about what to do.. it seemed silly to call 911 when we couldn't see any smoke or fire but we knew we just couldn't ignore the odor.  by 5:30 we got a call back from maintenance who offered to bring us a space heater.  We declined and when asked if they could do anything to help my husband pointed out that someone might want to check out the cause of the odor since other people were staying in the Inn too and it would be awful if there was a fire they neglected or the odor was caused by something toxic.  We turned our key in to the maintenance guy when he showed up and hoped that we were all set for check out... 

So 5:30 found us driving to Freeport and looking for breakfast options early on a Monday morning.  We stopped at the Sunrise Cafe (a place we've eaten at before) and then napped in the LL bean parking lot until 9 when most of the outlet stores began opening up for the day.  We shopped for a couple of hours and then stopped at the Maine Diner on our way home.

Photo taken on our last Maine trip; as I forgot to take any photos this final day of our trip!

We enjoyed the lobster pie and my husband got what they call the 3 D's meal-- the meal that was served on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.  It was pretty good but so incredibly filling that neither of us ate for the rest of the day.

We did groceries on our way home and I cooked a quick, easy spaghetti meal for the boys for their dinner. We all sat at the table and got caught up on our weekend, the boys gave their dad his father's day gifts (Twizzlers and a Carhartt shirt), then we watched 2 episodes of Friends).  

It was a rather weird last day of vacation but we did have a great trip and now have a "fun" story to tell!

Though despite trying to call the Inn and even sending an email I never managed to talk to a single person after leaving our key with the maintenance guy! 

You can read about day 1 here & day 2 here. 

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