It’s been a long time, readers! The last Blog entries, and the last trip we took, were in November 2019, BC (1). That was our Southeast Asia trip, which was fantastic. After three+ years of no real travel, Sally and I finally decided to break out of our shells and start traveling again. After all, life is short.

Earlier this year, we planned a fairly major international trip for the fall. I’m not going to spoil the surprise by telling you where it is until we get closer. After all, life is uncertain (2). But we couldn’t wait until then, so we’re on a much simpler road trip this week in Maine (we’ll make another stop on the way home later this week).

So yesterday was a travel day; we left in the morning and arrived in the middle of the afternoon. After checking in, unpacking and resting for a bit, we decided to find a place for dinner (lunch was pretty skimpy on the road). The Arundale Wharf Restaurant in Kennebunkport came up in the TripAdvisor search, and turned out to be a great choice. We ate on the deck overlooking the Kennebunkport harbor in nice but cool weather. The food was good – Sally had what was probably the first of several lobster rolls.

We both slept soundly. When I woke up this morning, it was pouring, which AccuWeather promised was going to end in an hour. Unfortunately it continued to say it was ending in an hour until around 11. Despite this, we walked over to the restaurant here at Hidden Pond and had a fine breakfast. When it finally stopped, I took a walk and got some images of the place covered in raindrops. Pretty, but not what I had in mind.

Then off to Kennebunkport village to walk around and get some lunch (3). Sally had mentioned that it was too bad we lost the morning so we wouldn’t have a full day there, but downtown Kennebunkport is all of about six blocks, so we really didn’t need much time to check out all the souvenir, T-shirt and gift shops. The only thing we bought was fudge. We found a suitable lunch spot, the cleverly named Alisson’s Restaurant. Once again the meal was fine.

This evening we have reservations at the fancy restaurant here at Hidden Pond, cleverly named “Earth”. I guess the idea is that all the food we eat comes from, well, the earth. I’ll let you know how that goes tomorrow.

---

(1) BC = Before Covid. But you knew that.

(2) “Life is short” and “Life is uncertain” both show up in places suggesting that one starts each meal with desert, but obviously has other applications. And what’s the difference between them, anyway?

(3) Sense a theme here? This vacation is for mostly doing nothing but killing time until the next meal.