“Poop on People in the Park—Peregrines Have Priority on the Precipice!”

It’s exciting to have the USGS datasheets, because now we know about even more benchmarks we can search for on MDI! The first one we searched for this morning, simply named after its elevation 195.10, is only a U.E., but it’s in an interesting location in the woods at Kebo Valley Golf Course.

Breakfast around 8:00, then checked Cadillac Mountain Sports where R bought shorts. Ride from Duck Brook Bridge to Halfmoon Pond, Breakneck Road to R’s favorite spot where we rested, then tried to ride the rest of the road, crossing many times through the wet “isthmus” but we couldn’t get past a large mucky spot, so we eventually turned back. Then we went down the west side of Eagle Lake to 8, then to 10, then 11, then past Aunt Betty Pond (remember winding roads with lots of wooden bridges that reminded me so much of Roosevelt State Park!), then to our spot on Eagle Lake to rest. When the wind came up, the waves soaked us thoroughly! Rode back, went to Miguel’s for supper, then drove up Cadillac Mountain looking for USGS chiseled marks; R found one on the way down. Then we went into town for the ice cream sampler.

Food: After a failed attempt to find the Waterville House of Panca-akes we ended up at the same damned McDonalds as last year (where we caused the coffee fiasco). I had chicken selects (made with real breast meat) and R had a Southern Chicken Sandwich (made with real chicken breast meat). At night, of course we had Rosalie’s pizza! Plain this time with plenty of beer on the side. Tons of bubbles in the pizza crust. Dessert was a sorbet sampler at MDI Ice Cream: cranberry-lemon ice, star anise-grapefruit sorbet, lime-cucumber sorbet, and blueberry basil sorbet.

Food: sandwich spread sandwich, chips, watermelon that Rich brought over to me before we left home around 6:30pm. Bagel and cream cheese at Rein’s (roast beef Reuben for R.). We noticed there were no pickles on the table!