Thursday, August 23, 2007
Sunday, August 05, 2007
i'm alive!
i'm in maine! woohoo!! i'm sitting in a rather expensive internet cafe, on my own laptop, mostly so i can use their power to charge my camera battery and cell phone, which has been completely dead for a while now. one problem is that up here, where coverage is limited, my phone spends a lot more "energy" than usual searching for a signal. so normally, fully charged, i get 2-3 days use out of it. now i'm lucky if i get 24 hrs, and that's if i don't use it but a few min!
so i started out wed going up the eastern shore. i stopped and drove around chincoteague, which was pretty cool. i stopped and saw the lighthouse and a frog and a butterfly posed for me to take their picture, too. then i drove on to queens to visit my aunt and uncle. i went to the YMCA with peter and he wore me out! we had a great thai dinner at a place down the block (and we passed about 5 other ethnic food places, too!) yum!
thurs i drove thru the adirondacks and a few small northern NY towns on my way to montreal. i arrived at leigh's beatiful home and she drove me around her hometown. oh so quaint! we even got ice cream and walked along the lake. then we met josh and drove into the city for mexican for dinner. they gave me the driving tour of the city!
fri i drove myself the wrong way to a car park and took the train into the city. i walked around old montreal for a while and the downtown area, too. then back to the car and back on the road. i drove to a campground in northern vermont, went for a dip in the stream and hit the hay early.
sat i got up early and headed for the ben & jerry's factory. oh yeah, factory tour and free samples!! good times. then i got on the road again and headed for mt washington, taking the back roads. i drove up the mtn and stood in the stiff, cold breeze and watched a thunderstorm grow off to the east. i got back in the car, stopped and bought a stove, stopped and bought the wrong kind of fuel, stopped and bought fruit and crossed into maine. on the radio i heard a severe thunderstorm warning for that storm i saw growing. :-P i finally made it to mt desert island on the maine coast just before dark, but realized i didn't know whwere the campground i was staying in was. i drove the wrong way before calling and getting directions. and i didn't call too soon! another 5 min and the office would have been closed! i found my site and set up in the dark. my phone died, i had the wrong fuel, water got in my stuff in the cooler that was in a ziplock bag, and i lost the anti-roller thing on my flashlight. it was a sad night. not to mention it was so humid i could see my breath. i've never been able to see my breath in such warm weather!! it was ridiculous! but, because of the humidity, i was able to see the lightning from a different storm to my north, even tho i couldn't see the storm itself behind some hills! that was sweet!
so now today, sunday, i drove the loop road around the park and went to the summit of cadillac mtn. then i drove around to otter point and checked out some tide pools, but no sea stars, unfortunately.
on the list for today and tomorrow:
kayak
bike
hike acadia mtn for sunrise
walk over to the island you can get to at low tide
eat some lobster
eat more icecream - at ben & bill's chocolate emporium
get different fuel for my stove? arg!
woohoo! i have to say, maine is pretty cool. it seems like every other car i pass has a kayak or canoe on top. or a bike on the back. i love these people! the motto is: "the way life should be" and on the lisence plates it says "vacationland". sure thing!! but the shore isn't close to tasmania, nor are the hills and trees like norway. but it's a heck of a lot closer than tasmania or norway!!
so i started out wed going up the eastern shore. i stopped and drove around chincoteague, which was pretty cool. i stopped and saw the lighthouse and a frog and a butterfly posed for me to take their picture, too. then i drove on to queens to visit my aunt and uncle. i went to the YMCA with peter and he wore me out! we had a great thai dinner at a place down the block (and we passed about 5 other ethnic food places, too!) yum!
thurs i drove thru the adirondacks and a few small northern NY towns on my way to montreal. i arrived at leigh's beatiful home and she drove me around her hometown. oh so quaint! we even got ice cream and walked along the lake. then we met josh and drove into the city for mexican for dinner. they gave me the driving tour of the city!
fri i drove myself the wrong way to a car park and took the train into the city. i walked around old montreal for a while and the downtown area, too. then back to the car and back on the road. i drove to a campground in northern vermont, went for a dip in the stream and hit the hay early.
sat i got up early and headed for the ben & jerry's factory. oh yeah, factory tour and free samples!! good times. then i got on the road again and headed for mt washington, taking the back roads. i drove up the mtn and stood in the stiff, cold breeze and watched a thunderstorm grow off to the east. i got back in the car, stopped and bought a stove, stopped and bought the wrong kind of fuel, stopped and bought fruit and crossed into maine. on the radio i heard a severe thunderstorm warning for that storm i saw growing. :-P i finally made it to mt desert island on the maine coast just before dark, but realized i didn't know whwere the campground i was staying in was. i drove the wrong way before calling and getting directions. and i didn't call too soon! another 5 min and the office would have been closed! i found my site and set up in the dark. my phone died, i had the wrong fuel, water got in my stuff in the cooler that was in a ziplock bag, and i lost the anti-roller thing on my flashlight. it was a sad night. not to mention it was so humid i could see my breath. i've never been able to see my breath in such warm weather!! it was ridiculous! but, because of the humidity, i was able to see the lightning from a different storm to my north, even tho i couldn't see the storm itself behind some hills! that was sweet!
so now today, sunday, i drove the loop road around the park and went to the summit of cadillac mtn. then i drove around to otter point and checked out some tide pools, but no sea stars, unfortunately.
on the list for today and tomorrow:
kayak
bike
hike acadia mtn for sunrise
walk over to the island you can get to at low tide
eat some lobster
eat more icecream - at ben & bill's chocolate emporium
get different fuel for my stove? arg!
woohoo! i have to say, maine is pretty cool. it seems like every other car i pass has a kayak or canoe on top. or a bike on the back. i love these people! the motto is: "the way life should be" and on the lisence plates it says "vacationland". sure thing!! but the shore isn't close to tasmania, nor are the hills and trees like norway. but it's a heck of a lot closer than tasmania or norway!!
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