rolanni | The writers, goofing off (Reply)

So, we turned in a book! And the next one's not due til next year, so, like the grasshoppers we are, we decided to take a vacation of Some Scope, rich with seal cruises, and eating out, and walking the seaside, and the town, and museums, and -- well. Long story short, we have decided once again to be conservative (this seems really very unfair, as I share Padi yos'Galan's dislike of being conservative, but here we are), and have scaled back our vacation plans, um...Quite A Bit.

I had schemed for Electron-Free, instead, we will be Electron-Lite, and our day-trip destinations will be chosen from among those shrinking areas in Maine where Covid and its cousin Delta are in lesser evidence. We will also be -- see above -- conservative.

So, yesterday! My suggestion was that we drive to Naples and have an ice cream. This morphed into driving to Naples and eating lunch on the back porch of the Freedom Cafe, overlooking Long Lake, and the various business that goes forth on that body of water in August.

My strawberry-blueberry-greens, feta, and chicken salad with lemon vinaigrette was awesome. Steve had many complimentary things to say about his fish 'n chips, and just sitting somewhere that is not our dining room was...really splendid.

After lunch, Steve drove us along back roads to Pine Point, where we visited the salt water for a bit, before driving down to Old Orchard Beach, and actually finding a parking spot! So we had a small walk along the ocean there before heading home.

At Pine Point, a kind lady named Mary took a joint portrait of us, which is appended below.