It’s now Thursday and we are at Blackwoods Campground in Acadia National Park.  It has no electrical or water hookups and there are no bars on my phone, so no Internet.  I’ll try to get this posted in the coming days.

Meanwhile, we did almost 400 miles on Wednesday.  Actually I should say that Dan drove almost 400 miles.  I had good intentions of doing my share, but it was a miserably rainy, foggy day, and Dan is by far the better driver of this thing.  The most stressful part of the trip was coming through Bar Harbor on Route 3.  I should have known to figure out an alternate route, but there we were, around 4:30 on a weekday afternoon, in a small town with extremely narrow streets, packed with people with their cars parked all along both sides-----with a huge beer truck right in front of us that at one point, tried to back up (into us??) in order to make a wide turn.  Yikes!  It was a relief to arrive on one piece.

This campground has over 300 sites and most are taken.  They are a bit close together but not too bad.  We have a neighbor out one side who lives about an hour north of here, and he’s been over to chat a bit---very friendly.

Last evening was damp and cool, the first time on the trip that I changed from shorts to long pants. All is still wet from our time in Vermont, so we have damp towels hanging all over and three of my four pairs of shoes are quite soggy.  Today is overcast but not actually raining, so we’re hoping things will begin to dry out.  The forecast for the coming days looks great: upper 70’s and clear.  We are overdue for such good weather!

Without electricity, it feels much more like camping.  We can use some lights minimally, but no appliances or microwave.  This afternoon we’re running the generator for a while to charge phones and warm some water in the water heater, so I’m taking advantage of the opportunity to catch up on news of the trip.

This morning we hiked a bit under four miles, from the campground to Eagle Crag which looks out over the hills and water around Mt Desert Island.  We both agreed that we are out of shape!  While it’s not hot, it is very humid, so we worked up a sweat.  Even Ranger is lounging now, recovering from the activity.

Assuming that we don’t get more rain, tonight we’ll have a campfire and roast hot dogs for dinner---a meal we never have at home but reserve for camping out!