June 1 – Knox Road Redeaux & the Cog Railway
I honestly felt guilty about going to Knox Road Grille and Atlantic Brewing Company for lunch on Friday without Jane, Mindy and Steve. That is why I suggested we go again on Sunday.
No, wait. Mindy said we had to get another ABC pint glass for Jake because he had broken his. That is why I suggested we go again on Sunday for lunch.
No, the real reason is because it was a gorgeous day, and what better thing to do but to caravan up the island to Town Hill with the T-tops off in a Camaro and the convertible top down in the MR2.
Regardless the reason (because of the CIA techniques I learned from Victor, no one will ever really know the truth), there we were having Dougy’s Bar-B-Que on Sunday.
Earlier in the morning, Roger & I discussed the Green Mountain Railway book that Jane & Steve have here at Aysgarth. The book “Steam to the Summit” includes a period map of dubious scale that showed the proximity of the cog railway route. The location does not appear on modern maps. It has been abandoned for decades. We decided it would be fun to try to find the actual rail bed. It took the better part of the afternoon searching around Eagle Lake on the Park Loop Road and up on the Cadillac Mountain summit road overlooks. We came up with a few theories where the route might have been along the western face of “Green Mountain.” We did eventually find it above the Park Loop Road. There still are questions we’ll try to answer tomorrow.
We had a Dinner Club tonight. Several rules were broken. It was the first time we held it on a Sunday. Half of the current members did not make it to Bar Harbor. A new temporary “fourth couple” joined the “reunion style” event. It will be the first time we’ll have two Dinner Clubs in the same month (on June 28th, we’ll have it at our house in GR). We had a great time with Roger, Lisa, Steve, Jane, Barry and Susan. Thanks Steve and Jane for hosting!
