Today, we left Bar Harbor and headed up to Bangor, where we followed the east bank of the Penobscot River (longest river in Maine) to it’s headwaters, in Aroostook county. Aroostook county (larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined) is the largest US county east of the Mississippi and the northernmost county of Maine, with lots of forests and water. The Acadian culture, native American Maliseet Band of the Algonquian, potatoes,  7000 miles of flowing water, and wind power, are all important elements of the county.
We could clearly see Mount Katahdin, highest mountain in Maine, and the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. (We worked Amicalola Falls State Park in northeast Georgia, last Fall, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, so we were glad to see this end too)!