Questions

Jerry’s Questions from today: ‘Why are these maps so hard to read? Where are the white blazes?’ ‘Did the last six months really happen or is this all a dream?’

I say: ‘If this is a dream, at the moment it’s really a fun one.’ We once again woke up at the Katahdin Inn and Suites in Millinocket. We even managed that without a wake up call from Jay at 5:30 – thank you very much. (Jerry had fallen asleep at 8:15 last night.) We headed down to the simple breakfast the motel offered. There we met again the parents of another thru hiker. Talk about instant camaraderie! There were also two other men there who were planning on hiking today. They asked Jerry some of the good questions. ‘What was the best part? At did you enjoy the most? How did you get your wife it let you do this?’ I find it interesting to listen to Jerry talk about his experience. There is excitement, reverence and just a sense of surprise that’s it is over.

After breakfast we headed out of Millinocket, down I-95 towards Acadia National Park. We bought a park pass and drove the Loop Road. Jerry will not be in to walking for some time again, I’m sure. It was beautiful, once again beyond words -the water, the mountains, the trees. Following the road we ended up in Bar Harbor. Many years ago Clair worked there at a gift store. We looked for the store but could not locate it. We did a little walking – I walked, Jerry hobbled. We were thinking about a whale watching tour but decided against it. We decided to stay the night in Bar Harbor and head for Cape Cod on Tuesday.

Following the lead of our good friends we used a coupon that we found in a cheap stay magazine that you can pick up at rest areas. $79 isn’t exactly cheap in our world but we thought we’d go for it although you never know what you’re checking in to. Well, we circled the building twice before we found our ‘coupon room’ number. The # was on the outside wall behind the employee’s entrance. Down the narrow ‘walkway’, through the employee entrance, up the steps, pass the bookcase, we found the door. So here we sit. The room has ‘no view’ thus the coupon room. But wait, there are trees, a bird house, a bird feeder – grant it we have to go out and around the building to see the water but – its dark out no one can see the water at the moment. The room is twice the size of any motel room I’ve ever been in and much larger that the two room cottage the 5 of us stayed in a couple nights ago. The bathroom is about the size of a normal motel room. Dark brown toilet and tub. The tub is bigger than any I’ve ever seen before. Talk about being able to stretch out! A sky light above the tub I’m sure adds a lot during the day – at night it just seems to reflect… Anyway, what a hoot this is!

We enjoyed a glass of wine from a bottle that I picked up in NJ around the end of July and have been carrying around with me ever since. Headed over to dinner where I had a blueberry daiquiri and some beef stew made with Bar Harbor Ale. Who is this person I’ve turned in to?

So here is MY other question that I’m sure someone out there can answer: somewhere in scripture it says something like ‘good measure being filled up, pressed down and flowing over’. So this has been my feeling today but I’d like to know the complete statement to know if it fits the way I feel it does.