So what does one do when faced with long journeys in a car? For the last several long road trips away the silence has been filled by playing PodCasts from my iPod through the car stereo using an adapter that feeds the output from the iPod into the AUX button on the car stereo. (A…
What a surprise a week ago to find a couple of comments on my very new blog waiting my moderation that weren’t spam, but were instead telling me I’d been nominated for a “Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence”. Thanks very much to Delia Furrer for this unexpected recognition – now I have to try and live…
So we’re home after the trip out east to Newark, Delaware and Bar Harbor, Maine… Travel Days were: 24 May pm – Caledonia to New Stanton, Pennsylvania – abt 440 miles; 25 May am – New Stanton, PA to Newark, Delaware – abt 245 miles; 27 May all day – Newark, DE to Bar Harbor,…
Our first day in Bar Harbor started gray and drizzly – at least it wasn’t as rainy as when we’d arrived the night before. Late morning Don suggested we go explore Deer Island, which is west of Mount Desert Island where Bar Harbor is, but requires quite a long circuitous route to get to. So…
The following is a photo gallery of the trip to Deer Island.
So we’re half-way on the May trip to the East Coast – meaning we have arrived in Bar Harbor, Maine for a few days. Wednesday’s big effort was 12 hours 40 minutes driving from Newark, Delaware to Bar Harbor Maine – 625 miles, of which a bit more than half was in the rain.
We left home yesterday (Sunday) not long after 1pm, heading east through Ohio and Pennsylvania, stopping for the night at New Stanton, PA about 450 miles from home. (For Don – the first run of fuel to Cleveland was 27.3 mpg, 2nd run to New Stanton came in at 29.9 mpg). Saw several large “herds”…
Yesterday Don and family stopped by to drop off a couple of items of luggage for us to take to Bar Harbor for them – I’d taken pity on the thought of 4 adults in a Camaro for 1200 miles, and so offered that we could take some of their luggage for them to make…
We’re in the countdown to this year’s trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. The plan is Sunday/Monday – drive Caledonia, Michigan to Newark, Delaware (690 miles/1,110 km) to visit with Mary Lee and Minor, and Anne and Steve Wednesday – drive Newark, Delaware to Bar Harbor, Maine (625 miles/1,006 km) to stay with Steve and Jane…
I first noticed the barn swallows circling the yard about 10 days ago – they came and went a bit. Today as I was outside working on the vege garden I noticed 3 Barn Swallows circling the yard looking more serious… Each year since we bought our house we’ve been delighted by the antics of the Barn Swallows who…