My stay in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine set a record for the longest amount of time spent in one place for my Circle Tour. I feel I have a good grasp of the area. I definitely have enjoyed my residence on this lovely island and the coast that it’s connected to. I wish to return someday.
But now a re-focusing is happening. I’m turning south toward Rhode Island in preparation of picking up my good friend, Melanie, on Saturday. When she heard me talk about my circumnavigation of the US was going to include the maritime providences of Canada, her eyes light up. “I’ve always wanted to see Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.” “Want to join me?” This conversation was held seven months ago and now’s the time for putting it together.
I drove the four hours south from Ellsworth inland to Bangor and Augusta (nice rolling wooded countryside) then back down to the coast near Freeport (remember So. Free. Me. ? I’m back….) to the tiny 33 site state park of Bradbury Mountain.
Here I’ll spend the next couple of days getting the RV serviced, doing the laundry and cleaning up my Man Cave for my road companion. On Friday I’ll drive through the last part of Maine, across the tip of New Hampshire and down to the Massachusetts/Rhode Island border and camp so I don’t have to do all the driving down to Providence and back on Saturday.
After being solo for four weeks, I’m wondering how much adjustment it will take for me to be an aware companion. I know that some of that adjusting will be in curtailing the scratching, belching and other bodily sounds that usually go unguarded.
Party on.
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