"camping in maine"

july 7, 2009
9:46am leaving jakes. little bit behind schedule. that seems odd. us behind schedule? off to maine to go CAMPING!!!!!!! yayayayyayyaya! so excited.
11:40am we're in maine already. not sure how that happened. got here pretty quickly. we're at 7,540 miles and its 60 degrees. WHAT? pretty much freezing. just stopped to get my second redbull of the morning and firework sparklers. why not? now off to find a camping spot!

2:03pm well its negative 8 degrees and pouring rain here. i guess we should have checked the weather forecast for maine and not just assume since this week in brooklyn was going to be sunny and warm, the whole east coast would be. we're retarded. we know. decided to get lobster here and go camping in vermont. in hopes that its not raining there too. "excuse me" i look over and this lady is trying to get into her shiny new bmw. oh im sorry...i was just on my hands and knees searching the car for pennies, nickles and dimes trying to add up to $3.00 for parking. no worries. we found enough. we're finally going to get this lobster. yay.
2:57pm just got done eating the lobster. thing was HUGE. a bit scary but really good. i only like the claw and tail though. the middle part with guts all over it was disgusting. after finishing the lobster we tried to put him back together again. sometimes i really wonder how old we are. off to vermont. green mountain national forest ... i think?
3:19pm another redbull and ring pop! grape! best one of all! candy makes me way too excited for my own well being. passed a surf shop and thought we warped back to california for a second. surfshops and surfboards always put a smile on my face :)
4:32pm somewhere in new hampshire. not sure if we're going the right way. raining still. driving til the rain stops so we can set up camp. 7,628.9 miles. 59 degrees. omaha by counting crows is playing. feels like we're back in the middle of america. ahhh love it. we're not though. we're in new hampshire. we can make believe though.
5:24pm well how the heck did the 101 just turn into a dead end? where ARE we? rain seems like it might be stopping. our lives are jokes. dead end. 7,672.9 miles. 61 degrees. 2 degrees warmer than before. sweet. do i hear 65? 65? .... how about 70? 70 sold to the two freezing girls not knowing where the hell they are going. if only weather were an auction. id be more broke than i already am.
5:31pm still at the dead end in the process of trying to take a picture i lost the ipod controller..again. after much struggling, finally got it. also put our lantern together during this as well because i thought having the latern on still in broad daylight would help us find the controller faster. it didnt. but it saved us from putting the latern together in the dark.

5:36pm still here. why?
5:41pm blue skies and back on track. thank god.
6:36pm getting off the 101 and entering the unknown....taking a path to who knows where.... a little scared but excited to see what we may find
6:40pm well that was lame. it was a dirt road leading to home in the woods. cool story. we did however see some white horses which was cool. and a ups truck. sweet. moving on...
7:26pm vermont welcome sign. 7,744.5 miles. 66 degrees. warming up. im tired.
7:55pm well, its raining here in vermont now. guess we left maine for no reason...trying to figure out where to go. ps i accidently mistook a wooden moose for a real one.
8:05pm still raining.
9:22pm well it stopped raining in vermont and we were getting very close to the campground in a town called durkas. we got about 5 feet from into the town near the campsite and what do we see but a huge circus tent in the middle of some sketchy field. it was named 'circus smurkas' that was it for us...no way are we camping in a town called durkas near something as scary as circus smurkas. dont feel like camping with clowns tonight. sorry. new plan. we're driving to lake george. we'll be safe there. im glad camping in maine turned into driving to lake george. oh boy. 7,815.4 miles. 58 degrees. oh no its getting cold again. sweet.
9:39pm after changing and cleaning out the car in a parking lot we're finally on our way to lake george.
11:04pm made it to lake george. not sure how. or why. but we're here. stopped at a valero (thought those were only in california, guess not) getting a few beers then finally FINALLY finding a campground to camp at. jesus.
11:12pm i think we're set. cooler. check. ice. check. 12 pack. check. 2 coozies that say lake george. check. 2 fish nets. check. a coloring book. check. are we missing anything else? 'man i need a beer'-erin just stated. yea i think we both do. holy cow.
12:00am exactly. we found...um...a place to 'camp out' we are sitting under a boating dock with our beers, ipod player and lantern of course. this may lead us into a night in jail. we'll see.
12:18ami forgot. we saw a boat called 'the minne-ha-ha" reminded us of our trip into minnesota. made us laugh again.
12:48am just saw a boating patrol. kind of forgot those existed. hope they don't see us. oh no.
sometime around 1:00am "so should we go to sleep or just stay up and leave at like 5am?" as soon as this question came out of my mouth it was proven by both erin and myself that what we were doing was absolutely absurd. we are freezing surrounded by bugs being eaten alive in a private boating dock. we could stay the night but i think we have had enough adventures... lets not push our luck. we both decided to get back in the car and just travel the last 40 miles to albany and sleep in beds...... ps. at least we had our lantern.