Built To Roam: Sunrise, Cadillac Mountain

Getting up at 4:30 am is a lot easier when it's to see something as awesome as the first sunrise to touch American soil, and while in Acadia N.P. I was able to do just that. In the fall and spring months Acadia's Cadillac mountain holds the title for being the first place in the United States to see sunrise. After waking up before the crack of dawn and driving to the top of Cadillac Mountain using the auto road, cheating I know but I was not in the mood to hike 4 miles before sunrise, We parked the car and found a spot on the summit to sit and enjoy the show. The weather was perfect and the low lying clouds shrouded Bar Harbor and most of the bay in a thick layer of fog that we were fortunately above. At first there wasn't many people but by the time sunrise was starting hundreds of people lined the top of the mountain to get a view. If you go to Acadia, I would highly suggest getting your ass out of bed and watching the sunrise, it was a completely awesome experience. And for the first time in my life, after heading into Bar harbor, I had to wait for a breakfast place to open instead of getting there after they close like I normally do.
And finally my attempt at wisdom, no laughing.

"Wander on as though you were meant to, as if your feet were not meant to stay put in any given place for too much time as to get used to it. Put on your boots and head down the trail that takes you to somewhere new, somewhere different, some place unlike any you have been before, and hopefully, just hopefully you will discover a part of yourself you’ve never known before. Carry the spirit of wanderlust in you throughout your life and seek out as much as our short time here will allow, because when that final bright day comes it is better to have tired feet and bones than a broken spirit and a lost sense of adventure."

Once again thanks for following along!

Video Series: Cadillac Mountain time lapse sunrise

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