Mon 30 Aug

Back home from a wonderful vacation! Safe and reasonably comfortable travels in our little Prius C with good gas mileage thrown in the bargain. Sufficient room for all our stuff and enough for a Costco run on the return trip. All the Hotwire hotels were satisfactory, a cut above what cheap hotels used to be. Had a really good oatmeal/eggs/sausage/pancakes breakfast at Tru in Elkhart, IN where I had my first exposure to a countertop machine that made the pancakes to order on a little conveyor belt. The breakfast bar attendant said people have been videoing the machine ever since they got it. Lots of good hikes in Acadia and in Vermont, but this will go on record as the sweatiest vacation ever! Temperatures weren't too high til it reached 90° the last couple of days in Vermont, but the humidity must have been in the upper 90s most every day. As soon as you reached even a slight uphill or challenging hiking surface, you'd start sweating and never stop. I would spend all day with my underneath layer soggy with sweat. The merino shirt kept it from irritating my skin, but I could feel it was wet if I touched it, and my cotton underwear never dried out all day. Food: 7:55 am Cinnamon roll, 103 g blackberries, coffee