Code monkey get up, get coffee; code monkey go to job

[rolanni]

Today, Steve had business in Skowhegan, so we took off after breakfast to accomplish it.  After, it being a Day Like No Other, we drove north, stopping for a snack at the Scenic Overlook Only Locals Know about, in East Madison, or possibly it’s just over the Solon border.  Gorgeous views of the near and slightly far mountains — you people over there, stop laughing.  To us, they’re mountains.  And today, they were breathtaking.

Having decided that we hadn’t seen enough, we continued driving in a northerly direction, thinking at one point to cross at Jackman, drive a short stretch through Canada and re-enter at Coburn Gore.  Reason — or, at least, the need to write and catch up some other tasks at home — prevailed.  We stopped at Bishop’s Store in Jackman, topped off the gas tank, took on snacks and turned around, arriving at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory shortly after 3.

Having now done business, played hookey, and been responsible — all in one day! — I’m going to finish up this blog post and go for a walk in the delightful evening.

Tomorrow, the day-job!

Progress on Ghost Ship:

80,319 words/100,000 OR 80.32% completed

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Heh...housemate and I committed road trip yesterday...making the 50 minute outbound leg into just over 3 hours!

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And all the "mountains" we passed were little bitty things.

Bluffs, Mesas, Mountains

[claire774.livejournal.com]

In Utah we have mountains, mesas, bluffs, canyons, and so on. My longest road trip was with my daughter from Kanab UT to Boulder UT (not CO) in one day. Famous restaurant in Boulder. Then back. Round trip 250 miles. Almost hit a bull on the way back who was just standing on the side of the road in the dark. Course it could have been a buffalo. Don't know. Missed him by a hair at 60 mph or I wouldn't be writing you now. Asked my daughter "Did you see that?". "Yup" she said. UT is an open fence state. No fences a lot of places for livestock, deer, elk and so on. Then almost ran out of gas there being no gas station between Escalante and Glendale after 9:00 pm. Nope. Not even at the entrance to Bryce Canyon. We arrived home lucky not to have hit the bull or to have had to sleep by the side of the road out of gas. It can be a little dangerous out here. The GPS sytems don't work very well. Best to make very sure of your route before or you can end up lost and in bad shape out on the Monument. Folks have been known to die out there. So..nice sightseeing in Maine. I think there are distant areas of Maine too where one could get lost and wet and so on. 80% done Ghost Ship. Great. Good luck with day job, perfessers, etc.

Best View

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Might as well say: Best View around here imo. Stop on the road from Kanab to Jacob's Lake and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon at the designated overlook up on the Kaibab Plateau. One can see off in the distance to the north the grand staircase of the Monument made up of the red cliffs, white cliffs, then the pink cliffs up by Bryce. Really quite spectacular. By the way Kanab, where I live, is down on the UT/AZ border about half way between Flagstaff AZ and Salt Lake City. Come on out.

Correction

[claire774.livejournal.com]

That's an open range state.

Wow

[(Anonymous)]

You were busy!
I had some nibbles on your chapbooks today - he's coming back to pick up a special order Friday so I anticipate one of them will go
out the door then. Meanwhile he took a Carousel Tides sampler.

Happy Belated Natal Day to Hex - he looks like my bunny used to
every time the camera came out. I'm sitting there swearing at the
critter to sit still and THEY'RE walking towards the camera with
a "What's that?" look on their cute face...so much for sitting
still.

Lauretta@ConstellationBooks

PS I bought what I thought were Suns & Stars sugar cookies for
the shop Saturday - the spiky ones turned out to be Dinosaurs
not Suns....so I had Mass Extinction cookies. :)

Mountains

[(Anonymous)]

But the East Coast mountains are much older than those *out there*, hence more worn down. I think you have to respect the age, plus they're big enough for me, being acrophobic.

Another point of view on viewpoints,
Barbara Karpel (Baltimore)