Happy Birthday, Adrienne!

October 2, 2012

Happy Birthday, Adrienne!
We love you!

Greetings to you from Range Pond Campground, Poland, ME. We were on the road by about 9:30 this morning. It had promised to be a gorgeous day in Trenton, ME, but we had to move on.
We arrived at about 1:00 this afternoon. Tom wasn’t sure he was going to like it here, and as I sat in the van waiting for him I thought I would like it here. I think we have settled on something in the middle. The campground is flat. I’m used to the rolling hills of Pennsylvania State Parks. It had rained recently as evidenced by the puddles in the ruts in the roads. I thought the ground was sandy and maybe it is. But mixed in with that sand is something that reminds me of clam shells that were ground fine. They are shiny iridescent flecks that stick to everything. Although there is a plastic, grass-like mat on the ground on which we wipe our feet, a piece of outdoor carpet on the step into the trailer on which we wipe our feet for the second time and an old bath mat just inside the door on which we wipe our feet for the third time there are still these iridescent flecks on the floor of the trail all the way from the door to the vanity and on the carpet under the table. I have swept this floor 3 times in the 6 hours that we have been here. My mother would have said, “This, too, shall pass”; my friend would say, “I can do anything for 3 more days.” We will be moving on on Saturday.

We came planning that we would do laundry after we arrived. We didn’t count on the toll that it would take on us doing after breaking camp and driving/riding for even such a relatively short distance. It took us as long to drive here as it did to do the laundry. There were four washers (one of which didn’t fill the washer with water for the rinse cycle) and three dryers (one of which didn’t get hot) and all seven were not in the greatest of shape. We worked with them as well as we could and then called it quits.

But we are here and plan to be busy in exploring Maine, and geocaching, so that we will not be in camp much more than to sleep.

Organizing the trailer was done in fits and starts. I needed to get some of it done in order to have the space to sort the laundry. After the laundry was done and brought back to the trailer I needed to create a different kind of space to be able to put the laundry away. It was finally finished, or as finished as it is going to get tonight. Tomorrow is time enough.
What we have in mind for the next three days is a trip in the western mountains of ME which starts close to here; the Kancamagus Highway and Mt Washington with its cog railway both in New Hampshire; and Freeport, ME with L.L.Bean and the Desert of Maine. Freeport is near the coast so we might go looking for the water again. Friday seems to be the nicest day according to the weather report so we will probably go into New Hampshire on Friday. Otherwise, everything is “up for grabs.”

It’s not too late but we are tired and will soon be going to bed. Hope you all have a good night and a great day!