Everything is copacetic here at Days Inn Motel, 250 Odlin Road, Bangor, Maine.
It is 4:36 a.m. and I am down at the Business Centre near the front desk, waiting for everyone to wake up and start enjoying the new day. They have the local and national news on a wide screen TV here and a couple of pots of nice fresh hot coffee. Ross, as usual, is sleeping in.
You could call this morning practice, if you like, as this is the last day in Maine for Ross, and tomorrow he leaves for Montreal from BIA, just down the road. His jet leaves at 5:50 a.m. and we need to be there at 4:50 a.m., that means we need to wake up at about 3:30 a.m. by my reckoning.
After having a great visit with Aunt Dawn, Aunt Cilla, Uncle Carl and Dad and Sandy at Dad and Sandy's house, yesterday afternoon, Ross and I got sent out to get take away dinner from a combo Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell Restaurant, out on Wilson Street in Downtown Brewer, only 5 minutes drive from Dad's house. We got KFC, 12 pieces of chicken, no wings, with biscuits, gravy, mashed potatoes and Cole slaw. Lots of it. I think they will have leftovers for the next day. Ross and I did the best we could but maybe we got 20% too much food. (Better than 20% too little food, I guess.)
Chatting at Dad's house yesterday afternoon.
Ross got a lot of urgent International Rotary work done on his iPad, after we got back to the Motel. I went down to the Business Centre, where I am now, because I was having great trouble connecting with the Free WiFi. They helped me at the desk, resetting all the four WiFi Router/Modems. This then enabled my Internet and I was able to write the blogs for yesterday and the day before, because I could not connect that day at Kool-Bee.
Cilla and Ross enjoying Dad's deck overlooking Sedgeunkedunk Stream, running downhill from nearby Brewer Lake, which give's it's name to the road Dad's house is on. Dad's road is a little weird because coming from Brewer, you set out sort of going East, on Mill Street, off Elm Street, and after about a mile you hit the Orrington Town Line and the road magically changes its name to Brewer Lake Road. Thus Dad and Sandy are at 229 Brewer Lake Road, even though it is sort of on Mill Street, Brewer, Maine.
Today we have a busy last day in Maine for Ross, as you can imagine. Ross needs to pack up a couple of US Postal Boxes to send home at the post office. We plan on heading out for a day trip to Bar Harbor, Stopping for lunch at The Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound, just before the bridge across to Mt Desert Island, and Acadia National Park, which surrounds the town and port of Bar Harbor as well as several other small towns and ports. We also would like to fit in a photo op at the huge statue of Paul Bunyan at Main Street, Bangor down near the Casino and the Bangor Auditorium.
Ross, in particular, will have a very busy day today. Ross has got to tidy up his laundry, check his documents, print off any documents he needs, check his packing and weight of luggage, check his passports and travel stuff and just get everything absolutely ready for leaving the country. This after a day trip to Downtown Bangor and out down US Route 1A East to Bar Harbor, maybe an hour or 90 minute drive. We want to be back to Dad and Sandy's house at around 3 p.m or 3:30 p.m. to chat with Dad and Sandy and have dinner with them again. So, we will only have a couple of hours in Bar Harbor.
I will write Part Two of today's blog after I have completed the day and inserted the photos from the part of the day yet to come.
Lance and Ross Tuesday, July 28th at 5:20 a.m.
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