Thoughts in Veeberland

I probably shouldn’t call the rest of this camping since we shifted to Boston and got a hotel room.

Late in the night Sarah awoke to mysterious sounds outside.  We got out of the tent and noticed our bag of Doritos got dragged to the edge of camp.  We put the chips back on the picnic table and went back to sleep.  In the morning as we had breakfast we noticed little paw marks on the picnic table, indicitave of a racoon.  The trash bag was torn open too so looks like a raccoon wanted to share in our bounty.  We spent the morning cleaning up the camp and packing everything into the truck.  We left for Boston around 1030.

Paul was designated driver since he slept more than anyone else.  He made it the whole 4 hours to Boston where we checked into a Hilton just outside the city.  It was a pretty nice room and we relaxed/showered for a few hours before we met up with Jae for dinner.  Since we had skipped lunch I improvised some egg and cheese sandwiches in the microwave using our left over Egg Beaters.  hmmmmm yummmy.

We drove into Boston, which was horrible, around 1730.   The Chinese restaurant was quite good and Sam stole the check from Jae.  Jae felt bad and took us out to Cambridge Brewing Company.  We ordered their sampler and settled on two choices.  Overall the beers weren’t very good, but they salvaged it a bit with their Cambridge Amber.  Paul had to go back to New Haven that night so Sarah and Sunny drove him to the train station while I hung out with Sam, Jae, and Mike (one of Sam’s classmates from UVA) and his wife.  I think she felt a little out of place so she took off early.  By the time Sarah and Sunny got back we had pretty much finished two pitchers, although I think I drank most of it.  We dropped everyone off at their respective locations and went back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep.  All in all, just a travel day and some good company.

So we are now Day 3 into our trip.  I woke first again, but wasn’t really up to actually getting out of my sleeping bag.  It was a bit chilly last night and my bag was still nice and warm.  Sam eventually woke, and made his way outside and “encouraged” us to all get out of bed.  After we finally got up we started breakfast and we weren’t really up to anything particular.  I think that activities from the day before really wiped us out, but Sam was intent on doing something.  We headed out for a random drive on the western lobe of Mt. Desert Island.  We kindof didn’t get out until 1100.  We found the coastal seawall and enjoyed watching the waves run up the shore.  We then kept going south along 102 and after some looping found our way to the lighthouse .  It has some wonderful views down there, but it’s mostly private property (belonging to the commander of the Coast Guard or something like that.)  We kept circling around looking for stuff and ended up travelling through this small dirt road and found ourselves at Seal Cove Pond . read more »

[Originally posted August 18, 2006]

I think I woke up first this morning.  I ambled my way to the restroom to cleanup and lit the citronella candles on the way out.  As I come back to the tent the rest of the party is gently rising from the tent, hungry.  We broke out some eggs, bacon, sausage, onions, mushrroms, and peppers.  While we ate we decided that we wanted to go kayaking.  We called one place and they said they were all booked up.  Now here’s the thing, instead of hanging up, he asked us to hold and CALLED the other kayaking companies around the island and found us a slot for 7! read more »

[Originally posted August 17, 2006]

So we’re back in Maryland now.  It’s good to be home, back to civilization.   The trip overall was great.  Good to be away from TV and computers for awhile and spend time with family and friends.  I think I’ll break up my posts so that each covers a day.  Hopefully this gets me in the habit of posting every day or so.  read more »