May 28 – Been Too Busy
Dinner with Steve and Jane last night at McKays Public House was the culmination of our day (Tuesday). Met Nate, the Chief of Police – at the next table. We’ve been so busy since, that I am just now getting a chance to write.
Many years ago we bought a large detailed map of Acadia Park trails. We’ve diligently marked each trail with the dates we hiked. Even though we’ve hiked some of our favorites trails multiple times, I guess some day the goal would be to hike them all. When we arrived in Bar Harbor Monday, Mindy realized that we had left our big map in GR. So we had to rely on memory. After a nice breakfast Wednesday, we set out to hike the Gorham Mountain trail, one we have never done before. Jane has often mentioned this as one of her favorites.
We drove into the park on Otter Cliff Road and parked at the Otter Cliff parking area on the Park Loop Road. We walked back toward Thunder Hole to the Gorham Mountain trail head. This is a moderately difficult trail with a vertical gain of 521′ and only a couple iron rungs. But the views are great. The trail goes northerly toward The Bowl and The Beehive, terminating very close to Sand Beach. Then we returned to Otter Cliffs via the Ocean Trail and Thunder Hole. A nice practice day for longer hikes later in the week.
Hungry, we decided to have lunch at the Jordan Pond House. It was about 1:00p.m. and we didn’t have to wait for a table. The view from the restaurant is of Jordan Pond with The Bubbles at the far distance. The south face trail of the South Bubble is where Mindy broke her finger a few years ago.
We had dinner with Steve and Jane at Geddy’s Wednesday night. Roger & Lisa arrived from Delaware this evening and we all watched the 3rd game in the playoffs – Penguins won 
I almost forgot! I honestly can’t remember if it was before or after the hike. Victor stopped by the inn today inquiring about tickets to the fund-raising dinner on Saturday. He didn’t make it a practice of carrying that amount of cash on him, but assured Jane that he intended to come back and pay. Victor went on to describe how he had recently suffered a stroke that caused him to “lose” three days. He didn’t need a doctor though as he believed in self-care health care. He also explained various other details of various other subjects that I didn’t listen to in detail, but recall thinking about how incredibly patient Jane was being in listening to his ramblings. It was curious to hear of his CIA training. Apparently he was intentionally mixing truth with fiction in his everyday conversations so as to make it impossible for people to determine if anything he was saying had any substance in fact. I thought this was an interesting way to live life.
