Dinner with Charlene, the Little River Falls Trail, Off to Nova Scotia

We met Charlene for dinner in Potsdam on Wednesday at the Cactus Grill and Cantina. Great staff. They really went over the top with helping. They had to take a door off to get the wheel chair ramp to be operational. they moved the tables and chairs. They wer attentive and professional. Well done, Cactus Grill.

 We had good conversations with Charlene, and she loved her shrimp enchilada. The United Helpers staff are even more impressive than the Cactus Grill servers. These women clearly care about Charlene and her housemate, Carol, who came with her. Kudos to Kaitlyn and Brooke! We really enjoyed spending an evening with them.

Thursday was our last full day in Star Lake. We walked about 5.5 miles on the Little River Falls Trail. It was an athletic hike and wore the humans out, while seemingly creating more and more energy in the canine!

 

Where is the trail?

Really! this is a trail??

Could not be more pretty

It took all afternoon to get the house back in shape to leave.

But then . . . ta-dah! . . . a wonderful evening of great food and even greater conversation and laughter with Friends Linda and Lenny, and Pam and Vito. It was a prefect wrap on the wonderful three weeks!

 

This morning, Friday, we finished the housekeeping and the car packing . . . exhausting! We dropped Stela with the Smiths. She ran right in and never looked back. Road Trip!

We drove east across the Adirondacks. Definitely a "blue highway" experience. The trees closed in from both sides of the two-lane roads. Traffic was almost non-existent. We stopped at a no-name store to buy paper towels for napkins and all other purposes and ended up paying $5.00 for a skimpy roll :)  Some of the roads we so much under construction that all pavement had been removed.

We are staying at a wonderful old resort motel on Wilson Lake in Wilton ME. Included with our senior-discounted $130 room, we get a lakefront, picnic tables and grill, Adirondack chairs, kayaks, canoes, and a row boat, a full moon, and breakfast. Couldn't be better!

And, Brother Pat went to the cardiologist for the followup on last week's bypass surgery and was told that he is ahead of the norm on recovery. Good news all around.

Heading into the blue mountains in the morning

World's smallest and priciest paper towel roll

Now that is a winding, lovely road!

No traffic. Only trees.

The lovely Wilson Lake Inn's yard

Waterfront!