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847badgerfan

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3808 on: June 26, 2026, 01:07:40 PM »
You're not getting to Portsmouth flying out of anything close to local (including Des Moines).

I'd look at Omaha to Boston in this case. Cheapest days to fly are Tuesday and Wednesday.
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« Reply #3809 on: June 26, 2026, 01:14:08 PM »
cool, I could fly Tuesday
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3810 on: June 26, 2026, 05:17:08 PM »
No.  Fly to Portland Maine.
Or....
If you are really dialed into Acadia for those 3 days, consider flying to Bangor Maine.

Either way, message me, I have a lot of trips to Maine recently under my belt.

Portsmouth is about 4 hours to Acadia.   Portland about 2.5 with way better flight options. 

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3811 on: June 26, 2026, 05:24:32 PM »
Leaf peepers abound.   Won't be cheap.  Book sooner rather than later the  lodging and any rental car.


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« Reply #3812 on: June 26, 2026, 06:36:47 PM »
I guess I missed part of flying to Boston first...maybe open end flight and head home from Bangor..  that's within hour of Acadia.

Cadillac Mountain sunrise a must 

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3813 on: June 26, 2026, 06:48:40 PM »
thanks for the tips

yes, gotta start in Boston with the ex-in-laws

I will look into flight home from Bangor

supposedly, peak fall colors timeframe - which is fine, I'm color blind, but will appreciate the effort
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« Reply #3814 on: June 26, 2026, 07:13:43 PM »
Bar Harbor is delightful.   Bike riding the carriage roads is so much fun, you can rent e bikes and make it easy..

Portland Maine punches way above its weight in food and drink department

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3815 on: June 26, 2026, 07:36:15 PM »
My daughter has vacationed in Maine the past couple of Septembers

I'll follow her lead unless she wants a tip

Then I''l suggest yours
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #3816 on: June 26, 2026, 10:15:52 PM »
Bangor?  I hardly...





Anyway I love Portland Maine and surrounding areas.  Truly a delightful part of the country.

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« Reply #3817 on: Today at 02:54:41 AM »
Back in Madrid for week. 🇪🇸

Last year, for my first trip to Madrid, my hotel was to the south of Retiro Park near the Atocha train station. The neighborhood appeared uniformly working class, with cab drivers congregating together to smoke alongside their parked vehicles, café bars serving rounds of pitchers to construction workers getting off shift, and in the windows of four and five floors of apartments waved laundry and Real Madrid soccer banners. This year I’m staying to the north in more of a business corridor. The sidewalks are wider, trees divide the main streets, and plaza grounds separate the much taller corporate towers. The area continuing north along the Paseo de la Castellana is home to the Área de Negocios de las Cuatro Torres (Four Towers Business Area), a prominent business park and modern skyline district. Home to Spain’s four tallest skyscrapers, with each topping between 700 and 800 feet high and completed between 2007 and 2009 (with a fifth tower finished in 2021). Construction on the original four towers began in 2004 after the city redeveloped Real Madrid's former training grounds into one of Europe’s few modern skyscraper districts.


 

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