Maine 2023 (November/December)
Ellsworth and vicinity
Wednesday, November 29 through Wednesday, December 6, 2023
We flew from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Bangor, Maine via Houston Intercontinental Airport (Houston, Texas), and Liberty International Airport (Newark, New Jersey). I managed to get sick shortly after our arrival, but recovered quickly. We did some house/property maintenance, and a fair amount of snow shoveling during our stay. 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) and Garmin eTrex SE as backups (and the FlightRadar24 website). A few local trips may not have been recorded (since in-town trips are regularly ignored where we live).
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
- 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.
Wednesday, November 29
- GPX / view map—Driving to the airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Houston, Texas.
- GPX / view map—Walking and waiting at the Houston airport.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Houston, Texas to Newark, New Jersey.
- GPX / view map—Walking, taking the bus, walking, and waiting at the Newark airport.
- GPX / view map—Taxiing from the gate, then sitting on a taxiway as the crew attempted to fix a problem, then returning to the gate. From there, walking to another gate, then flying from Newark, New Jersey to Bangor, Maine.
- GPX / view map—Walking from the plane, through the airport, to the rental car, then driving to Ellsworth, Maine. (This track is from the Garmin device, since I accidentally failed to restart the Bad Elf device after ending the previous track.)
Thursday, November 30
- GPX / view map—Driving downtown and back (the displayed track is heavily edited to remove numerous redundant and clearly very erroneous points, but the original GPX file is not edited).
- GPX / view map—Walking (just me) downtown and back. Both the original and displayed GPX files are edited to remove obviously incorrect track points.
- GPX / view map—Driving to a store and back.
Friday, December 1
Saturday, December 2
Sunday, December 3
- GPX / view map—Driving to a store in Ellsworth, then to a couple of stores and a restaurant in Bangor, and back.
Monday, December 4
Tuesday, December 5
- GPX / view map—Driving to/from the Ellsworth Transfer Station.
- GPX / view map—Driving to/from a restaurant in downtown Ellsworth.
Wednesday, December 6
- GPX / view map—Driving from Ellsworth, Maine to the Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine, including a brief stop at a gas station in Brewer.
- GPX / view map—Walking and waiting at Bangor International Airport.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Bangor, Maine to Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
- GPX / view map—Walking, riding a bus, walking, and waiting at the Newark airport.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Newark, New Jersey to Houston Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas.
- GPX / view map—Walking, taking the train, walking, and waiting at the Houston airport.
- GPX / view map—Flying from Houston, Texas to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (The Bad Elf device almost completely failed throughout this flight, so a portion of the Garmin device's track is presented here. For a better version of the flight, minus taxiing at Houston, see this track.)
- GPX / view map—Driving back from the airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
