Day 91 – It started raining last night and continued raining steadily throughout the day. It was 58 degrees this morning when we got up at 6:30 a.m. No bike riding or chasing eagles today!
We used the rain as an excuse to catch up on some paperwork & budget stuff. Then after lunch we drove to Lubec to pick up our mail at the Post Office. We got our absentee ballots, filled them out, & turned around and mailed them right back again. (Didya see that, Carol, Duane, Lin, & Judy?) We also stopped at the hardware store & an auto parts store – when the weather improves, Rob can finish fixing the RV’s side mirrors. With Route 1 all torn up still with the road work, it was a really muddy mess & slow going back to the campground. We’d intended to go by our land to check on everything, but it was too wet & muddy out.
Back at the RV, we hunkered down with the kitties. They’ve slept all day & will probably be little terrors all night long. The high today was 65 degrees, rainy & humid.
END OF MONTH THREE, TRIP #4: As of today, we’ve been gone for three months on Trip #4, not counting the time spent at home & in CA, just counting days on the road. We’d left off a month ago at Peaks-Kenny State Park near Dover-Foxcroft in central Maine. We only stayed there briefly, then moved to Lily Bay State Park on Moosehead Lake near Greenville, Maine. We stayed there for a week & changed campsites in the middle due to the noise at this crowded campground. It was much better when we moved to a less noisy site. The weather was good & we did some kayaking. Beautiful country, for sure! We also discovered an excellent campsite which was private, and due to a last-minute reservation cancellation, we were able to book that site for later in the month. We’d been really looking forward to doing some real Maine backwoods camping & we attempted too move to Big Eddy Campground near Baxter State Park next. But the only road that went to the campground was dirt & in lousy shape, so we had to give up on that idea. We went back up north to Aroostook State Park and stayed almost two weeks there. It’s a small campground pretty far out there, and it tended to be full & crowded only on the weekends. We had a quiet, relaxing stay & used the campground as a base to travel north all the way to the Canadian border to check out this gorgeous area. We went to a hot-air balloon festival, went kayaking several times, explored Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge, and made many drives through the Amish neighborhoods and surrounding countryside. It was time for us to go back to Lily Bay State Park for our four days in the perfect campsite, so we left Aroostook. Back at Lily Bay we went kayaking often. Except for one day at Prong Pond, we were able to kayak right out of our campsite. The call of the Loons put us to sleep at night. It was great. Summer departed & some fall color started to show up on the trees. The temperatures cooled, particularly at night. Next we drove south & east to Cobscook Bay State Park & after only two nights, we were able to occupy our favorite campsite there. We’ll remain here as a long stopover before going to our land & settling in for the fall season. Even though we really love this area of Maine, we both already miss the north woods country. It’s special up there & we will go back again.