Happy Saturday!
With a couple of bites of fudge, a whole pancake, and a
banana in my belly, I headed out on my long run of the week. I weaved through
the Seal Harbor rich-house district and even made my way down to the ocean at
Hunter’s Cove. With a blue sky overhead and smooth pavement below, it was an
awesome way to start the day…but 90 minutes of running/moseying did make me
fairly tired the rest of the day.
Work was incredibly slow today. Our theory was that the
Flamingo Festival in Southwest Harbor took most of our normal weekend guests. I
still haven’t heard a good explanation why a small village on the coast of
Maine has an annual festival centered around those funny pink birds. At any
rate, I think we all enjoyed a temporary lull in the summer busyness.
All four of us ACMNPer’s were able to go campground walk
tonight. Ally and I took on the “B” loop while Sabrina and Luke handled the
“A.” At B35 I ran into one of my college classmates in the Parks, Tourism, and
Recreation Management program. He is out here leading a group of students from
the University of New Hampshire as part of his summer job. He graduated a year
ago and is working on his master’s degree at UNH. About a week and a half ago
he had contacted me on Facebook to let me know he was coming out here. So it’s
not like I didn’t see our running into each other coming, but it was a pleasant
surprise nonetheless.
At B117, Ally and I talked with a nice family from
Pennsylvania. They invited us to join them for s’mores after we finished. We
met up with Luke and Sabrina and let them know of the invite. Sabrina led the
charge back to the campsite to snack on the tasty morsels. Not only did we get
our fill of simple sugars, but we also got our fill of campfire smoke—the
tastes and smells of summer.
Today's picture of the day is a deer I saw during my run. This is actually the first deer I've seen since leaving Montana.
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