Moving day turned out to be much easier then I expected. I was able to sit on the floor to put things away in their cubbies and lay on the beds to zip up the windows. Other then that, I got to sit at the picnic table to observe.
Now you have to understand, one of Ed's biggest beefs is if I am in a sitting position and make a suggestion, point, observation, etc. Drives him crazy! Well, now that's all I can do for awhile. Should be interesting.
We stopped along the way for Brunch. I am not good on crutches yet, so the distance from the car to the table in the restaurant seemed like eternity! So not worth it!
We are now in New Hampshire in Zealand campground---between Bethleham, NH and Bretton Woods. Campsite is not bad but there is no cell service, Wi-Fi or internet for 10 miles each way so it's a little isolating.
Ed puts the camper up and pretty much organizes everything for this trip. We'll be here until Friday Aug 23 when we go to our LAST set up in Conway.
I have lost my enthusiasm for cooking, cleaning etc while camping. You know how when you are getting dinner ready you go back and for the from refrigerator to table etc for a million things you forget? Well, doing that while you are instructing someone to get everything for you SUCKS!
Let's just get this summer over! We already have 4 weeks rented for next summer! It has to be better then this!
Monday, August 19, 2013
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Having a broken foot SUCKS!!!!!
Having a broken foot SUCKS!!!! There is no polite way to say this.
Not having terribly good balance probably complicates my life as well. Ed is trying hard to teach me how to use my crutches....put the crutches in front, keep all your weight on the crutches and swing your good leg in front of you. Not easy for me to follow. I am better if I stay in one place and just don't move.
Well, now that's not really a good solution either.
I am use to simply just coming and going as I feel like it. People who are disabled....unable to use their legs or arms like the rest of us have my profound respect at being able to function in our world.
I am cranky and not happy with this situation!
Not having terribly good balance probably complicates my life as well. Ed is trying hard to teach me how to use my crutches....put the crutches in front, keep all your weight on the crutches and swing your good leg in front of you. Not easy for me to follow. I am better if I stay in one place and just don't move.
Well, now that's not really a good solution either.
I am use to simply just coming and going as I feel like it. People who are disabled....unable to use their legs or arms like the rest of us have my profound respect at being able to function in our world.
I am cranky and not happy with this situation!
Saturday, August 17, 2013
This will be interesting! --- Monday August 12, 2013 Lake St. George Campground, Liberty, Maine
OK. So Ed says there is a blackberry patch near the boat ramp that he thinks would be fun to walk to after dinner. It's a great spot to throw the ball to Monty and it's a beautiful evening.
Those who know me, know that I am not an explorer. Typically, I do not venture beyond my little campsite (which is why I really like the spots right on the water!). However, this does sound like fun.
We headed off to the blackberry patch with our bags in hand. I think the women who just came out of this area with a loaded brown paper bag right before we arrived may have picked all the good ones, though! I poop out after about ten minutes but Ed is a real trooper and goes even deeper to find some ripe ones! I decide to throw the ball to Monty.
This can actually keep him occupied for HOURS! After ten or twelve throws with the chucker, he runs down to the water to cool off, comes back and is ready for more! It's really funny....our previous dog, Buddy, got totally bored with the ball throwing after three or four times and would then go hide the ball on you or go lay down....not Monty!!!! He could do it all day!!
Once Ed gets his fruit fill, we head back to our campsite. On the way there, Ed keeps Monty on his leash and has the ball and chucker in his hand.
Quite honestly, I can't even tell you what happened next. All I know is that Monty is all excited again about the tennis ball and plows into my left foot! All 70+ pounds of him. I didn't fall but my world went black for a few seconds! I knew something bad happened.
Ed thought I may have twisted my ankle in a divot in the road, but whatever, I limped home and was in tremendous pain.
We put my foot up and applied ice. We even concluded the evening with our Gin Rummy tournament (he won....I think he was taking advantage of me!).
The next day it did not really feel any better so we headed out to the hospital emergency room. Not knowing the area at all, we headed to Waterville to Inland Hospital about 30 minutes away. Once they took X-Rays, it was confirmed....I have a broken fifth metatarsal bone. Recommendation is to keep all weight off it and stay on crutches for 6 to 8 weeks! WHAT!!!
So the last few weeks of our summer camping trip will be different to say the least. At least I don't have many stairs to climb like I will have at home.
So for now.....I am keeping my feet up, eating bon-bons and taking drugs!
Life is Good!
Those who know me, know that I am not an explorer. Typically, I do not venture beyond my little campsite (which is why I really like the spots right on the water!). However, this does sound like fun.
We headed off to the blackberry patch with our bags in hand. I think the women who just came out of this area with a loaded brown paper bag right before we arrived may have picked all the good ones, though! I poop out after about ten minutes but Ed is a real trooper and goes even deeper to find some ripe ones! I decide to throw the ball to Monty.
This can actually keep him occupied for HOURS! After ten or twelve throws with the chucker, he runs down to the water to cool off, comes back and is ready for more! It's really funny....our previous dog, Buddy, got totally bored with the ball throwing after three or four times and would then go hide the ball on you or go lay down....not Monty!!!! He could do it all day!!
Once Ed gets his fruit fill, we head back to our campsite. On the way there, Ed keeps Monty on his leash and has the ball and chucker in his hand.
Quite honestly, I can't even tell you what happened next. All I know is that Monty is all excited again about the tennis ball and plows into my left foot! All 70+ pounds of him. I didn't fall but my world went black for a few seconds! I knew something bad happened.
Ed thought I may have twisted my ankle in a divot in the road, but whatever, I limped home and was in tremendous pain.
We put my foot up and applied ice. We even concluded the evening with our Gin Rummy tournament (he won....I think he was taking advantage of me!).
The next day it did not really feel any better so we headed out to the hospital emergency room. Not knowing the area at all, we headed to Waterville to Inland Hospital about 30 minutes away. Once they took X-Rays, it was confirmed....I have a broken fifth metatarsal bone. Recommendation is to keep all weight off it and stay on crutches for 6 to 8 weeks! WHAT!!!
So the last few weeks of our summer camping trip will be different to say the least. At least I don't have many stairs to climb like I will have at home.
So for now.....I am keeping my feet up, eating bon-bons and taking drugs!
Life is Good!
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Trying a new campground --- Sunday August 11, 2013
Saturday and Sunday turn out to be dry and sunny days. We spread out all of our damp items and were able to dry most everything before packing up to move on to our next location.
Our goal is to end our last camping spot at Covered Bridge near Conway, NH starting on Friday August 23 so we have to find probably two spots before then. I always like to try new campgrounds, so Ed checks out a few spots we haven't been and makes some reservations on line.
We are heading on Sunday to Liberty, Maine, to a state park and campground named Lake St. George. Lake St. George State Park is located 16 miles west of Belfast and 25 miles west of Augusta on the northwest shore of the beautiful Lake St. George. State Route 3 runs parallel and close to the lake, which was originally part of a farmstead.
The centerpiece of the park is Lake St. George itself. It's a small campground with only about 30 sites but situated RIGHT on the lake makes it very desirable---especially to Ed! It has showers and bathrooms but no electricity or water. Better then most.
It is situated, however, right on Route 3 which is a heavy truck route so it is a little noisy.
We are here until Friday.
Our goal is to end our last camping spot at Covered Bridge near Conway, NH starting on Friday August 23 so we have to find probably two spots before then. I always like to try new campgrounds, so Ed checks out a few spots we haven't been and makes some reservations on line.
We are heading on Sunday to Liberty, Maine, to a state park and campground named Lake St. George. Lake St. George State Park is located 16 miles west of Belfast and 25 miles west of Augusta on the northwest shore of the beautiful Lake St. George. State Route 3 runs parallel and close to the lake, which was originally part of a farmstead.
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| View of Lake St. George |
It is situated, however, right on Route 3 which is a heavy truck route so it is a little noisy.
We are here until Friday.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
The worst of times --- Friday August 9, 2013
Friday started out rainy. Heavy, damp, ugly rain. So much so that Ed decides to come with me and spend the day at the Lubec Memorial Library, in Lubec, Maine. The library is a very active small town library that has a really homey feel to it.
Lubec, itself, is the easternmost town in the contiguous United States and is about 14 miles from our campsite. It is right next to the bridge to Campobello Island.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, would spend his summers on Campobello from the age of one until, as an adult, he acquired a larger property — a 34-room "cottage" — which he used as a summer retreat until 1939. It was here that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., was born in August 1914. It was at Campobello, in August 1921, that the future president fell ill with a paralytic illness, at the time thought to be polio, which resulted in his total and permanent paralysis from the waist down. Roosevelt did strive for seven years to regain use of his legs but never again walked unassisted.
The park was sold and then the cottage was donated to the U.S. and Canadian governments in 1963 as an international park. The Roosevelt Campobello International Park is the only one of its kind because it is run by both the Canadian and American governments, the park being located in Canadian territory. The park is now equally staffed by both Americans and Canadians.
So while there is some things of interest in and around Lubec, it is not really a happening place!
We closed the library down at 4 pm and moved on to an early dinner at Cohill's Pub. Comfortable place for an easy dinner with friendly wait staff.
We headed home and continued our Gin Rummy Tournament. We ended the night at a tie of 9 games each.
I headed off the bed to read and Ed followed within a half hour. As we were snuggled under the covers the rain began to fall much harder and the wind picked up. So much so after and hour or so, we decided to brave the elements and go outside to take down the screen house and awning.
We were too late. The wind was howling as we got the screen house unattached and dropped to the ground, but we only got the awning half way rolled up when a giant gust ripped the awning off the camper in our hands. If we were only 10 seconds earlier....!
We took in everything we could and left everything else outside and hoped it would not blow away. Remember, there are no lights around this area, only the flashlight in our hand and it was in a torrential rainstorm. Not fun.
The wind continued shaking the camper for the next 4 hours. Ed and I were sleeping on either side of the camper in the hopes of stabilizing the unit itself. We didn't really talk. Ed tried to continue to read his Kindle while I put my earplugs in and tried to go to sleep. There was nothing else we could do but wait it out.
We estimated the winds to be 40 to 50 mph at a SUSTAINED level. The roof of the camper was shaking side to side and the tenting material was whipping in and out despite being all closed up. Both of us were on the verge of (silently) thinking it was time to move into the truck when the wind calmed down around 2 am.
It was one of the scariest nights we have ever spent. It seems that over the last couple years we have had at least one unpleasant event.
I think I'm getting too old for this!
Lubec, itself, is the easternmost town in the contiguous United States and is about 14 miles from our campsite. It is right next to the bridge to Campobello Island.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, would spend his summers on Campobello from the age of one until, as an adult, he acquired a larger property — a 34-room "cottage" — which he used as a summer retreat until 1939. It was here that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., was born in August 1914. It was at Campobello, in August 1921, that the future president fell ill with a paralytic illness, at the time thought to be polio, which resulted in his total and permanent paralysis from the waist down. Roosevelt did strive for seven years to regain use of his legs but never again walked unassisted.
The park was sold and then the cottage was donated to the U.S. and Canadian governments in 1963 as an international park. The Roosevelt Campobello International Park is the only one of its kind because it is run by both the Canadian and American governments, the park being located in Canadian territory. The park is now equally staffed by both Americans and Canadians.
So while there is some things of interest in and around Lubec, it is not really a happening place!
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| Cohill's Pub |
We headed home and continued our Gin Rummy Tournament. We ended the night at a tie of 9 games each.
I headed off the bed to read and Ed followed within a half hour. As we were snuggled under the covers the rain began to fall much harder and the wind picked up. So much so after and hour or so, we decided to brave the elements and go outside to take down the screen house and awning.
We were too late. The wind was howling as we got the screen house unattached and dropped to the ground, but we only got the awning half way rolled up when a giant gust ripped the awning off the camper in our hands. If we were only 10 seconds earlier....!
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| Viewing damage in the light of day. |
The wind continued shaking the camper for the next 4 hours. Ed and I were sleeping on either side of the camper in the hopes of stabilizing the unit itself. We didn't really talk. Ed tried to continue to read his Kindle while I put my earplugs in and tried to go to sleep. There was nothing else we could do but wait it out.
We estimated the winds to be 40 to 50 mph at a SUSTAINED level. The roof of the camper was shaking side to side and the tenting material was whipping in and out despite being all closed up. Both of us were on the verge of (silently) thinking it was time to move into the truck when the wind calmed down around 2 am.
It was one of the scariest nights we have ever spent. It seems that over the last couple years we have had at least one unpleasant event.
I think I'm getting too old for this!
Monday, August 12, 2013
Cobscook Bay State Park -- Monday August 5, 2013
It was only a three hour ride to get up to Cobscook Bay State Park from Acadia. Cobscook Bay State Park is a state park, surrounded by the salt waters of Cobscook Bay, and located four miles south of Dennysville, Maine. The park contains 888 acres of land and provides magnificent views of the ebb and flow of the tides. It's right up Rt 1 and there is very little traffic as you head north.
We have come to Cobscook four times since we've been retired. We were able to reserve our favorite spot here--site 29. Three times we've been able to get this site. It's in a little alcove all on it's own so you have complete privacy. It's literally the most quiet place we have ever been. I always say being here is like having cotton in your ears.
We especially like this site for Monty. No need to have him on a leash so he has free rein to chase balls and lay quietly in the sun. It's also open to the water. No real shade but we do have our awning and screen house so that's not really a requirement.
The park itself has nothing....no electricity, no lights. It has pit toilets in each area of the campground but does have showers in a central location near the entrance.
Weather turns a little stormy for our first night but the double rainbow more then made up for the showers! And the forecast is for a sunny few days.
As it turned out, it was sunny for one day and then rainy for two consecutive days. Not the best we've ever had in this location. Ed has been able to go bike riding and kayaking, though, so not all is lost.
We have come to Cobscook four times since we've been retired. We were able to reserve our favorite spot here--site 29. Three times we've been able to get this site. It's in a little alcove all on it's own so you have complete privacy. It's literally the most quiet place we have ever been. I always say being here is like having cotton in your ears.
We especially like this site for Monty. No need to have him on a leash so he has free rein to chase balls and lay quietly in the sun. It's also open to the water. No real shade but we do have our awning and screen house so that's not really a requirement.
The park itself has nothing....no electricity, no lights. It has pit toilets in each area of the campground but does have showers in a central location near the entrance.
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| View from our campsite |
As it turned out, it was sunny for one day and then rainy for two consecutive days. Not the best we've ever had in this location. Ed has been able to go bike riding and kayaking, though, so not all is lost.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Great weather to end Acadia National Park -- Sunday August 3, 2013
Our weather during these two weeks has been iffy at best. We would have a sunny day followed by 2 days of rain only to repeat it again. Hard to get excited about camping up here when everything is damp!
We did go out to eat a few times. Spending money always feels good:)
We did the required walk around the town of Bar Harbor. Lots of touristy shops with lots of people doing the same window shopping we were doing. There was even a large cruise ship that comes into the port. Good for the economy.
Speaking of economy, things must be getting better throughout the world---an awful lot of people traveling here do not speak English!
On Saturday I had reservations at Jordon Pond Restaurant. Have you heard of it? If you ever come here for vacation, this is a MUST--tea at Jordon Pond. We were on the lawn since we had Monty with us. He was very well behaved despite the other number of dogs out there. Everyone said how handsome he was !
We don't actually have tea when we go--we have iced tea with Lobster Stew and Popovers! The Lobster Stew is chunky with delicious Lobster and the Popovers come with butter and jam. They are to die for!
Our last day was sunny! Ed took Monty for a hike to Cadillac mountain to celebrate. They both did great--all back in one piece. When I picked them up I made sure we had our cooler with us. We found a quiet spot at Otter Cove to park our chairs overlooking the water and had our wine to celebrate a good day.
Tomorrow we head to Cobscook Bay State Park on Rt 1 near Lubec, Maine.
We did go out to eat a few times. Spending money always feels good:)
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| Bar Harbor shopping |
We did the required walk around the town of Bar Harbor. Lots of touristy shops with lots of people doing the same window shopping we were doing. There was even a large cruise ship that comes into the port. Good for the economy.
Speaking of economy, things must be getting better throughout the world---an awful lot of people traveling here do not speak English!
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| View while having tea at Jordan Pond |
We don't actually have tea when we go--we have iced tea with Lobster Stew and Popovers! The Lobster Stew is chunky with delicious Lobster and the Popovers come with butter and jam. They are to die for!
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| Otter Cove |
Tomorrow we head to Cobscook Bay State Park on Rt 1 near Lubec, Maine.
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