Oops, it happened again. Another nut with easy access to military style weapons walked into a business, school, or house of worship and shot people indiscriminately. A shooter in Lewiston, Maine entered a bowling alley and a bar and killed 18 people and wounded at least 13 more on Wednesday night. Police quickly identified a local man as the ( Read more... )

Whew. Not only was our trip to New York and Maine earlier this month a long one, 12 days (only 11 planned) away from home, but it's taken me a full week beyond that to catch up my backlog of blogs.

A few of the blogs I posted out of order. Stitching them back together here:

• The trip was going well up through our visit to the L. L. Bean giant boot ( Read more... )

Maine Week Travelog #32
Freeport, ME - Monday, 21 Jun 2021, 1pm.

Once again our plans on this trip changed and we called an audible. Our plan for today had been to finish up the trip with a hike to Angel Falls- which we've postponed twice already- and then drive to the airport in Portland for our flights home. At least, that was the plan as of ( Read more... )

Maine Week Travelog #31
Bethel, ME - Sunday, 20 Jun 2021, 8pm.

We wrapped up the hiking portion of the day today after Cataract Falls. We thought about pushing on to hike Angel Falls an hour further away but decided that we were already spent. It had been a full day. We'd hiked 5 trails (I only blogged about 4 because one was spur-of-the-moment and ( Read more... )

Maine Week Travelog #30
Andover, ME - Sunday, 20 Jun 2021, 4pm.

We began the day today with a list of hikes we'd like to take. They were all short-ish, the longest being about 2 miles, and mostly in the same area, so maybe we could do them all. It would depend on how long a) the light lasts and b) our stamina lasts. Unfortunately the hike to Maybe- ( Read more... )

Maine Week Travelog #29
Dunn Notch, ME - Sunday, 20 Jun 2021, 2:30pm.

So far this trip the Maine waterfalls book we've been using the past few days has not led us astray. The descriptions have been accurate, the pictures have been helpful for choosing pretty sights, and perhaps most importantly the driving directions to some of these remote ( Read more... )

Maine Week Travelog #28
Grafton Notch State Park, ME - Sunday, 20 Jun 2021, 11:40am.

"Screw Auger Falls". That sounds like a condemnation, not a place name. But it's actually a nice little waterfalls in Grafton Notch State Park in western Maine.


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Maine Week Travelog #27
Step Falls Preserve, ME - Sunday, 20 Jun 2021, 11am.

Our week-long adventure in Maine is close to over... according to the calendar. We leave tomorrow. But when we look at our list of things to do... well, we're still in the thick of it. We're aiming to hike several trails and visit numerous waterfalls today. ...Assuming the ( Read more... )

Maine Week Travelog #26
Bethel, ME - Saturday, 19 Jun 2021, 9pm.

After getting rained out of our last hike or two today (previous blog) we made our way on to Bethel, where we checked into our motel for the next two nights and went out to find some dinner. Maybe it's good we didn't go on another hike or two more because the drive to Bethel took a ( Read more... )

Maine Week Travelog #25
Mooselookmeguntic Lake, ME - Saturday, 19 Jun 2021, 4pm.

When it started raining during our visit to Smalls Falls (previous blog) we remained optimistic about continuing our day of road-tripping and hiking. It had rained early in the morning then dried out and become sunny; and the rain abated after about 30 minutes at Smalls ( Read more... )