44 57.022 N 070 34.499 W
Our friend, and blog reader, Don suggested that we should visit Rangely, Maine. He said, "That is as good as it gets in Maine." That was good enough for us, so here we are arriving in Rangely. It really is beautiful. The only problem is the weather. It is cold. It's going to rain for the next 36 hours. Libby and I have a conflict. She wants to camp here. I want to find a motel. I'll probably win. I usually do.
The other thing we missed today was Roosevelt's Campibella Cottage. We wanted to see that but we were close by at 0730. We figured it wouldn't open until 9 or 10 and we didn't want to wait. I guess it is a truism that when you visit a lot of places, you can't see everything interesting. Heck, we might still be in North Carolina if we did that.
Speaking of a lot of places, We sure covered a lot of territory this year. We went to Marathon, 24 42.40 N 081 05.68 W, almost to Key west. We went to San Diego Harbor, 32.42.85 117.10.51. We went to Denny's Harbor, New Brunswick. 45 8.065 N 066 27.142 W.
Therefore our sandbox went from 24 degrees N to 45 N and 27 W to 117 W. That box contains about 2.5 million square miles. Actually, our path was triangular, so it contains only 1.25 million square miles. That sounds like a lot but it is only 1% of The Earth's land surface. 1% makes it sound little. But we could probably find something interesting in each square mile of those 1.25 million. One day in each would have taken us 3424 years to complete this trip.
Interestingly, the north-south bounds of our sandbox are identical to our normal sandbox when we travel only via Tarwathie. It is the east-west component that is very much bigger.
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Sorry about the weather. It's been a little cool in Maine for the last week or so Before that I thought I was back in Alabama. There's a place outside of Rangely called the height of land. I hope someone told you about that as it is quite a view.
ReplyDeleteYou get a nice view of Mooselookmangotik (SP) Lake.
If we weren't heading out to Massena in the morning I would have invited you to stop by our place on the lake and enjoy some more of Maine lakes region. That would have been fun. You're only about an hour and a half away. We're close to Augusta. If you travel down Rt'4 out of Rangely you'll pass through Farmington, a quiet little college town. When I worked at the paper mill in Jay, we lived in Wilton, another quaint little New England town which is about 8 miles from Farmington. This is a part of Maine most tourists don't see. Most stay near the coast except for ski season.
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