Every year Annmarie Kelly embarks on a trip to Maine where she reflects on her life, the years challenges and successes while seeking solace and adventure in the beautiful Northeast wilderness.
A lazy Sunday morning…one of my favorite things. Tonight we’re having dinner with cottage owner, Ollie, and I’m looking forward to it. Joseph and I didn’t want to do any strenuous hiking, but we wanted to do something […]
Read More A Walk in the Park
About fifteen years ago, for five years, Joseph and I rented a cottage on the Schoodic Peninsula. It’s about an hour north of Mt. Desert Island but it includes one of the outlier sections of Acadia National Park. […]
Read More My Schoodic Treat
Something pretty neat happened as Joseph and I wrapped up today’s hike on the Eagle Lake carriage trail. It was a very cool ending to a full and good day! But first, we stopped at the Post Office […]
Read More Am I a Mainer??Joseph and I meandered up the coast from Portland. We usually make a stop at the tiny lobster shack called Reds Eats in Wiscasset. But the line is usually really long (about an hour’s wait) and we usually […]
Read More Windward Cottages
Leaving Rockport around 11am, we stopped for breakfast and then headed for Maine. By midday we were at the liquor store in New Hampshire where we loaded up on two weeks worth of vacation alcohol. You might think […]
Read More My Friend Robert
This year Joseph and I were a little more organized with our pre-vacation prep and packing. We woke up, stripped the bed and made it up with clean sheets. I know it’a a little much for some people, […]
Read More Maine Diaries 2016
As Joseph and I traveled south out of Maine, we started listening to a book on CD. It was James Patterson’s Sundays at Tiffanys. By around 9pm, we had checked into a hotel and were on our way […]
Read More On the Way Home…
The weather people were finally right…they said it was going to rain and it’s pouring down in buckets! We started getting some packing done and the cottage looks a mess. Time to go home… Joseph likes to “ease […]
Read More Rainy Last DayUpper Hadlock Carriage Trail This is probably our last full day. I feel so sad that this vacation went so fast. We took the Hadlock Pond carriage trail today. It’s about 4 miles. The challenge of the trail […]
Read More Last Hike of 2015
The weather says that we’re going to have rain on and off for the next few days. I don’t like to hike over wet boulders, so we decided to take a hike up Gorham Mountain. It’s a good […]
Read More Gorham MountainFeatured On
