Pemaquid, Part 1

Over Columbus Day weekend, Rosie and I took a trip to Pemaquid and surrounds, although I sadly had to work on that Monday. Today's post is from Ocean Point, south of Boothbay Harbor.

Yeah! Ocean!


But let's get down to what we all know we're here for...
...to dork out on all the radical rock formations along the shore.

 

I am utterly ignorant of what created any of these formations, but I really like looking at them and being there among them.
 

Very waves!
 

 

So quartz!
 

 

 

Rosie was there too but she was hungry.
 

I was there and I wasn't hungry.
 

Lichen, which is like a rock, but it's alive.
 

 

 

Coastal Maine...yep, there's the good stuff.
 

Bachelor party photos

I just thought I'd share some photos from my bachelor party back in July. We had a good time up in Maine, whitewater rafting on the Rapid River above Lake Umbagog, hiking up to Table Rock in Grafton Notch, and swimming in what we call the Deep Hole.

Many thanks to Chris Glazner for all these photos!

I got the pink MITOC helmet.

Hanging out at the lunch rocks.

 

Trying to get the weight forward enough to surf the raft.
 

A little too far forward.
 

Many thanks to Peter and my dad for supplying the food and much of the beer. This trip was thrown together at the last minute with basically no planning effort on my part, and I had an awesome time. Without all those sausages we would have been in trouble though.

 

At Table Rock.
 

Show a little leg.
 

 

 

 

The Deep Hole.
 

 

 

 

Dave Moonwalking in air.


Thank you again, everyone, for a perfect bachelor party!

Stuff on Sammy, scaled up PB&J production, and flowers

STUFF ON SAMMY!!!!!
 

This is the whole reason to have a blog in the first place, right?!
...And the whole reason to have a dog, for that matter.



Our dog is utterly emasculated.

Little Sammy!

In other developments...I've been industrializing my PB&J production. This will last me about a week...

Our landlord grows a lot of very nice plants around our house.

A normal place to take a nap, right?

Why does the Ottoman have a paw?

Sammy with Evan and Siona's daughter, Nora, who is...inspecting the carpet...

 

Glacier NP 5: Bowman Lake and the Clark Mansion

On our last day in Glacier, we went up to the northwest corner of the park. We actually exited the park for a while and drove up forest service roads just outside the boundary, then reentered the park and followed a very narrow, steep dirt road eventually leading to Bowman Lake. It really felt like the middle of nowhere for quite a while, then, suddenly, the road ended in a parking lot, and there was a composting toilet, and a bunch of people having picnics at a beach. 

Polebridge, MT. Or Cicely, AK.

Rosie wearing her bathing suit for her 20s.

Water. Just for my dad.

Then we drove a very long haul down to Butte, MT, to stay in the Copper King Manion, built and owned by Willam Andrews Clark, a mining financier, MT senator, and one of the richest people in the world in the early 20th century. He basically founded the city of Las Vegas. Now one of his mansions is more or less and museum and a bed a breakfast.

Interestingly, one of his daughters was Huguette Clark, subject of what is said to be a very interesting book: http://tinyurl.com/p2majpt

Bed where we slept.

"A dresser"

The rest of Butte....has not a hell of a lot to recommend it....

The mansion was owned by various eccentrics after the Clark family sold it. One of them really, really, really liked penguins.

A very tall doorway.

We also happened by a historically significant drive-in restaurant.

Yeah...

Then we hauled it down through ID and back to Jackson, then back to Boston, and back to work, in short order.