The day started out cold, foggy, damp and drippy. And it stayed that way all day with periodic moments of light rain. I tried sitting outside to read and meditate, loving the quiet (where was everyone?) only to also face defeat by the 45-degree dampness with a slight breeze. I guess I’m not as hardy as I used to be.
Camping in a national campground is such a different feel. In our Campground, Black Woods Campground, there are no services (electric, water or sewer hook ups) so while there are plenty of trailers (including a surprising number of airstreams) there are also many more tents. Watching these campers mostly in their 20s, camp in this weather with a tent, making a fire, eating hot dogs on a stick, bundled up around the fire, brings it all back to me. That’s how I camped for decades. And now? We are glamping. We have lights, heat, a cookstove and a grill to act as an oven. We have hot water and a comfortable bed. I guess that’s what happens over 50 years of camping. I still enjoy being in the middle of nature but I’m grateful to have these conveniences to allow me to continue to experience nature but with the creature comforts.
As efficient as we are at packing up and hitching, it still seems to take us hours to actually leave camp. But we were finally on our way with a whole 20-minute drive ahead of us. Bar Harbor Campground is on the other side of town from Acadia National Park so it wasn’t a very grueling drive to get here, to say the least.
We are in the middle of the woods. With no hook ups it was pretty easy to settle in, especially with the rain, as there was no need to set up chairs. I took the dogs down to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, a half mile walk through the woods from our campsite. Life is slowing down even more now that we don’t have wifi. Later in the day. Peter joined me and the dogs for that same walk, a treat to walk these wooded paths down to the ocean.
We made a vain attempt to hook up our trailer to the truck’s generator to see if we could power Starlink. Turns out we can juice up our battery but can’t create enough amperage. Truly, that’s fine with me although I felt like I failed the challenge but I learned how to find and use the truck’s generator, so that felt great. That’s part of this trip so far: facing challenges and troubleshooting ourselves out of them and learning and gaining confidence in the process.
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