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Thank you Lou and Alma

 A delightful visit. But we’re not there in Moravia anymore.  Interstate 81 north to Syracuse, west on Interstate 90, the New York Thruway, south of Rochester.  South on Highway 77 to Java Center, not far from where Rock and Ginny live in East Otto. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004e02f0c80f1461c0bf&msa=0&ll=42.964463,-76.937256&spn=5.426063,13.392334 Still two blank states on the map (excluding Alaska). Maybe we’ll just claim to have visited all 46 of the lower 48.  
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Boat tours

 This is how whale tour boats out of Bar Harbor look.  They’ll put 280 people on a boat. We took our boat tours from a smaller town 75 miles north of Bar Harbor.  This is how our tour boat looked. They take a maximum of 6 people.  They’re lobster boats.  Captain Jamie. Captain Jim. They take us in close to the sights.  They do puffin tours, whale watches, fishing, lobstering.  They stopped on the way in to pull up a lobster trap and show us how the traps work, how to measure the lobster, and explain lobstering licensing and etiquette.  In the winter Captain Jamie dives for sea urchins. I’d pay extra to go on our boat instead of theirs.  The Bar Harbor tour cost more… 
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The last time we saw Terry

 He lived in Colorado and was single.  We come find him a few years later in Bath, and he is married and has three kids.  We knew he had three kids so we brought presents.  His kids are 24, 19, and 15.  We brought stuffed animals.  Oops. He has a cool old house from the 1800s.  The family home.  He and his wife Lauri both grew up in Bath.  In looking in the barn,  we discover that he hasn’t lost his interest in motocross. He has a few bikes. Every nook and cranny of the barn is stuffed with motorcycles. Every nook and cranny Mostly Husqvarna. Some Maicos. Except the upstairs.That’s just parts. How about that trailer outside?  Yep.  Four bikes rigged to race. Amazing.  A few snapshots don’t really do it justice. But we’ve left Bath.  We’ve moved on to see Lou and Alma in Moravia. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004e02f0c80f1461c0bf&msa=0&ll=42.722804,-76.376953&spn=5.447299,13.392334 And on the way there….   …we stopped for lunch with Meredith Small (and her daughter Francesca). …and figured out we hadn’t seen her in 40 years!  She was a student at C.U. then.  Now she’s a full professor of anthropology at Cornell in Ithaca with a long career behind her. Lou and Alma…   …we haven’t seen them in about 2 months.  We see them every winter in South Texas.  
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Bath

 New York.  Hickory Hill Family Camping Resort right on the edge of town. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004e02f0c80f1461c0bf&msa=0&ll=42.98054,-73.487549&spn=5.424646,13.392334 A visit with our friend Terry.  We worked together 25 or 30 years ago in Denver.  25 or 30 years ago.  Already. Another day of hills, forests and toll roads.  We love toll roads.  Once you get away from the City, it appears that tolls collected for roads actually go to maintain the roads.  In our big bus galump galump galumping down the highway, we really appreciate smooth roads. Tomorrow, another day here and more catching up with Terry.