Blogs from Maine, United States, North America - page 45

Well. I had planned to write a lot more and a lot more often but being a mostly non technological camp and lately having activities morning noon and night has meant, sitting on my laptop for hours hasn't really been a common occurrence. I have been at my camp locale by the lake since June 2nd and it has been absolutely beautiful and fun and sometimes stressful and I may or may not have cried one day when I was running late and I didn't get time to make my bed and could not find any clean socks. When I got here after my long series of flights and bus rides, I wafted with an upbeat delirium to go on a road trip through 3 states to the hills of beautiful Vermont to go and choose ... read more

It's hiking day on Acadia Mountain Trail. The beginning of the trail was largely covered with trees so it was shady but not cool. It was pretty hot today. Even though the initial part of the trail was a gradual ascent, the heat was too unbearable that we had to make a few stops to catch our breath. And during that time, I discovered that we should get a hell out of the shade as soon as possible. The biggest mosquito I had ever seen landed on my arm attempting to get some lunch from me. I quickly smashed it, and then more came so we at that point hurried up the mountain to get away from all these blood sucking creatures. It was definitely hot and humid and I kept thinking how far were we ... read more

Well the last couple of days have truly been adventurous. After finishing the floating down the Nulhegan we hoped into the Connecticut river. There is a sweet class two wave during high water if you take the left off from where the river "forks" in three different directions. When I say forks I mean you can either go left, right, or straight. I've never seen a river do that before in my life. We took the left and got to run a nice class II wave. By the end of the day we had made it up a good chunk of the Amonoosuc to Groveton, NH. Now because of all the rain we had this last week the rivers were all flowing high and fast and it was tough making it up the Amonoosuc. Thankfully we ... read more

Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, 22 juin Après une courte halte dans le Bas du Fleuve, j'ai franchi la frontière américaine à Fort-Kent, Maine. Pas spécialement une destination touristique disons, de sorte que le flux de touristes au poste frontière était assez modeste en ce vendredi après-midi. Le douanier de faction, en voyant arriver cet équipage hors de l'ordinaire, se dit sans doute qu'il allait faire ses choux gras avec ce drôle de zèbre au volant de sa Toyota. Je fut donc quitte pour la fouille (pas de mes sous-vêtements mais bien du véhicule) et je dût patienter quelque peu avant de véritablement amorcer mon périple en terre américaine. N'ayant rien trouvé à redire, c'est avec un sourire aigre-doux qu'il me recommenda de conduire prudemment avant de me laisser filer... Quelques heures plus tard, la mer, enfin! Les effluves ... read more

Molly and Paul have emailed me and there was a fire at one of the schools. Here is their email. "Molly and I regret to inform you that one of the girls Homes/Dormitory at Kibuye Primary school here in Kampala caugt fire over the week end and all the property for 14 pupils got burnt to ashes. e.g mattresses, bedsheets, blankets, uniforms , shoes and all that belonged to them in their cases . Two of of the affected children are members of the Pearl of Africa Children's Choir. By the time when this tragedy happened, all the children were attending the Choir's wonderful perfomance which was taking place in the next enclosure. We thank God that no single child was hurt. The cause of this fire is not yet established and is being investigated by ... read more