Adventure Suites

What an unforgettable day. We decided to take a trip down the Kangcamangus highway. This is a beautiful drive down through New Hampshire, lots of mountains, rivers, streams. Equally shared by bikers. Stopped a bunch to walk around at covered bridge, hang out on some river bend that was called a gorge although was clearly not. Drove up to the pass, and then we decided to turn around and head to maine to check out the most famous beer bar in the world. At Ebenezer’s bar and pub, I decided to order a “black Albert” after hearing Michaela talk about it who had heard about it from her friend who is a real beer conniseur. Apparently this is the drink that only beer specialists are allowed, but at least my order got the owner to come out and chill with us for a bit. We ended up staying for a while – drinking all sorts of good Belgian beers. I tried to teach the owner’s daughter how to do kartwheels – getting in camp mode…
Back at the adventure suites, it was one of the hotel workers’ good bye parties, who actually was from slovakia, so I got to jam in the 8 czech words that I know..
Then at our Roman spa, with the same three songs on repeat – bocelli, mambo italiano, the one that goes “when the moon hits your eyes like a big pizza pie..” we lived it up like romans. Definitely the best way to spend my second to last night in the USA.

Hit the road the next day, touched the atlantic, road the fung wa over to nyc.. saw a bunch of people in the city and flew out the next day!

So the next day, the plan was to go meet up with Michaela, because my sister was on her way up to a roller ski camp up in Lake Placid. I definitely had been looking forward to this mini adventure, especially as my last couple days in the US. After feeding some ducks outside a diner in Salisburyport and learning that putting plastic snakes in the window keep cardinals from flying into them, we headed north to Conway New Hampshire. We got up there in time to go on a pretty cool hike, to see a pretty big waterfall [arethusia i think?] falls. On our way back we saw some Moose. They were cute, but not in the mood to be ridden.

On our way back to the sunny side inn, we passed a funny looking hotel called the adventure suites. There was a sign saying free tours so naturally we hopped in to check it out…

Flying out to see my sister

So to mark the official embarkment from home, it would have to be Tuesday June 17th at around 11 AM. Although I am actually writing this more than a week later from switzerland, it is definitely worth catching up to the point of where I'm at to keep future posts in the present...
Landed in Boston to be seen off by my sister. Ta likes to live for pain and pleasure. We started out with the pleasure part - getting some Thai food and eating it in Newton Center. Then onto pain, while she forced me to go on a "easy day" run, and do pullups, 8 minute abs, and pushups. Played a bunch of scrabble, and went out to dinner.
My first travel problem occurred when I opened my suitcase and saw that my shampoo had exploded. Fortunately I had put my rain jacket on top, and we were able to wash it out.