Maine 2023 (September) (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Ellsworth and vicinity
Saturday, September 2 through Sunday, September 17, 2023
We flew from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Bangor, Maine via O'Hare International Airport (Chicago, Illinois). We spent most of the two weeks in Ellsworth, Maine at the house, mainly taking care of necessary tasks at our property, and doing some exploring of the woods near the house. We had scheduled our return to Oklahoma on the 16th, but had to reschedule (for the following day) when the remains of Hurricane Lee arrived, and caused all commercial airline flights to/from Bangor to be canceled the 16th. We returned to Oklahoma City via Chicago (reverse of outbound route).
I tracked the trip with a Bad Elf GPS Pro+ GPSr (GPS receiver), using my iPhone 12 (Gaia GPS app) as a backup (and the FlightRadar24 website). A few local trips were not recorded (since in-town trips are regularly ignored where we live). In addition, much of the last three days prior to departure were lost when I somehow lost my Bad Elf GPSr. As a result of the loss, my new Garmin eTrex SE GPSr was used for the return trip.
NOTE: the downloadable GPX tracks are the full GPX files, while those shown on the provided "view map" links are simplified (with minimal effect on geographic accuracy) for much faster viewing.
Original GPX tracks are unedited, except where necessary to fill in missing data. Edited tracks are noted in their descriptions.
Businesses are named below for reference only. No endorsement should be inferred. If you wish to see my opinion of the places mentioned, see TripAdvisor (for those few that I have actually rated).
Overview (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
- Overview map—This is a composite map of all the GPS tracks on a blank US/Canada map. Just Downeast Maine.
- All GPS tracks / view map—The whole trip, including walking, driving, etc.
Saturday, September 2
- GPX / view map—Riding (a taxi-van) to the airport, plus walking through the terminal at Will Rogers World Airport. Some of the track points toward the end of the track are highly inaccurate.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
- GPX / view map—Walking through O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
- GPX / view map—(Partial) Flying from Chicago, Illinois to the international airport in Bangor, Maine. The GPSr apparently lost adequate signal over southern Michigan.
- To add: join these half tracks together with assistance from FlightRadar24's data.
- GPX / view map—(Partial) Continuation of previous track, starting in Ontario, and continuing to Bangor, Maine.
- GPX / view map—Walking in the terminal, and out to the rental car lot at Bangor International Airport.
- GPX / view map—Driving from Bangor, Maine (airport rental car lot) to Ellsworth, Maine.
- GPX / view map—Driving to shopping and dinner in Ellsworth. Dinner was at the recently-reopened Finn's Irish Pub.
Sunday, September 3
Monday, September 4
Tuesday, September 5
- GPX / view map—Driving to various errands in Ellsworth.
- GPX / view map—Driving to/from Abel's Lobster Pound in (rural) Bar Harbor, where we met a former coworker of mine and his family.
Wednesday, September 6
- GPX / view map—Driving to the trailhead of the Simon Trail in Lamoine.
- GPX / view map—Hiking the Simon Trail in Lamoine. The hike was led by a Maine State forester, and was a “tree identification walk”. (Topo)
- GPX / view map—Driving back to Ellsworth, including a stop for lunch.
- GPX / view map—Driving to pick up dinner in downtown Ellsworth.
Thursday, September 7
Friday, September 8
- GPX / view map—Driving and walking to/from dinner (Fogtown Brewing Company, where we met a former coworker of mine and his family).
Saturday, September 9
Sunday, September 10
- GPX / view map—Driving to the Ellsworth marina for lunch, including walking the short trail there, and driving to a grocery store, also in Ellsworth.
- GPX / view map—Exploration of our property.
Tuesday, September 12
Sunday, September 17
- GPX / view map—Driving to lunch/dinner in Ellsworth, then to the rental car return at Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine.
- GPX / view map—Walking through Bangor International Airport.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Bangor, Maine to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
- GPX / view map—Walking through O'Hare International Airport.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Chicago, Illinois to Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- GPX / view map—Walking through Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- GPX / view map—Riding (taxi-van) from the airport.
