For Act 1 of our vacation Mary and I ended up in an AirBnb in Northport, Maine, not far from David and Carol in Belfast. Here's the view from the swing chair in front of our place. Unless, of course, it's all foggy (as it has been for much of the time).
It turns out this has been a brilliant choice. After hanging with David and Carol on Sunday, on Monday Mary and I walked two miles north along the shore road to the village of Bayside, established as the site of a Mehodist camp in the late 19th century. It looks an awful lot like Oak Bluffs from the Vineyard, except that there are no retail establishments whatsoever in Bayside, unless a realtor counts. Then we walked home and cobbled together lunch, despite the fact that our stove didn't work at all (our hosts gave us a small rebate for that0.
On Tuesday we walked a couple of miles in the other direction from our place and ended up in Temple Heights, also part of Northport. It turns out this place was established as a camp not for Christians, but for mediums and other angelic spiritualists. No joke. It is a going concern to this day.
Then I went and sat in a squat chair and read a mystery novel looking out at the water. It was much like being at the beach in NC in the summer except the bathroom and the coffee machine were much more convenient.
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