Road Trip From Arkansas To Maine and Back

16 Days- 13 States-3,993 Miles

Day 1 
Aug 22 Thursday
Hot Springs Village, AR to Knoxville TN (#1)
and a visit with cousins Leigh and Robert

Day 2
Aug 23 Friday 
Knoxville TN to Charlottesville VA (#2)

Monticello

Day 3 
Aug 24 Saturday

Charlottesville VA
through West VA (#3)
to Boonsboro, MD (#4)
to Harrisburg PA (#5)

Boonsboro, Maryland
Nora Roberts' Bookstore,
Turn the Page

Day 4
Aug 25 Sunday

 PA 
through New York NY (#6)
to East Hartford CN (#7)

White Hall Inn

Day 5
Aug 26 Monday 

East Hartford, CN 
through MS (#8)
through NH (#9)

to Camden, ME (#10)

Day 6
Aug 27 Tuesday
Camden, ME
After a breakfast of Blueberry Pancakes at the Inn we headed to Rockland, ME and the Farnsworth Museum. 

N. C. Wyeth

It was a real treat to see the work of 
N. C., Grandfather, and Andrew Wyeth, father, and Grandson and son, James (Jamie) Wyeth.

            

...and a little shopping

in the cutest shop ever!

...and a little lunch

In a great deli!

...and then the best part...

Sailing for two hours
 on the Schooner Olad
in Penobscot Bay!

Day 7
Aug 28 Wednesday
Camden to Deer Isle

End of the Trail
Myrick's Place

           

Day 8
Aug 29 Thursday
Day Trip to Stonington to do a little sightseeing...            

...and buy LOBSTER!!! for dinner!

Ymmmmmmm!

Day 9
Aug 30 Friday
A Walk in the Woods..

A Picnic on the Rocks...

...and back to the house to hang out, pack, and get ready for last leg of our journey.

Day 10
Aug 31 Saturday
Deer Isle to Bar Harbor... 

Lunch at Bar Harbor Inn

Breakfast at 2 Cats

Day 11 
Sept 1 Sunday ...and Acadia National Park

Lunch at Jordan's Pond

Day 12
Sept 2 Monday Labor Day 
Bar Harbor to Schenectady NY 

To visit
my awesome cousin
and his family

Day 13
Sep 3 Tuesday
Schenectady NY to Naples NY 
Finger Lakes:

...and a visit
with a
Forever Friend

Day 14
Sept 4 Wednesday
Naples NY to Cambridge, OH (#11)

Day 15 
Sept 5 Thursday
Cambridge OH 
through Kentucky (#12)
to Union City TN

Day 16

YEA! WE'RE HOME!

Sept 6 Friday
Union City TN 
to Hot Springs Village AR (#13)

THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thanks to a lady with whom I volunteer at our local library for recommending this 'Mary Russell' series of books! 

I love Sherlock Holmes. I am partial to the Basil Rathbone portrayal, but am really loving the 'Elementary' TV Series. 

In fact, I am wondering if this series may have been the inspiration for 'Elementary'. The main inspiration is that Laurie King has provided Sherlock with an apprentice who becomes his female counterpart and his partner in crime solving. The story takes place in the early 1900's; Watson is still around; and Sherlock is older that the TV Sherlock. I can see how a TV writer might segue into a younger Sherlock, who is training a female partner, Dr. Joan Watson.

I really want to see if Ms. King will subject us to the same level of background detail in the next installment. I understand this first book of the series is setting the scene. However, the details of chess and beekeeping did get tedious after a while. And, I am not sure she felt we needed to visit Palestine for a month of detail. I think maybe a couple of weeks' overview would have done it? Maybe-Maybe Not?

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FREAKONOMICS

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 
by Steven D. Levitt

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Steven D. Levitt is one who 'thinks outside the box'. I mean really, really thinks outside the box. He takes common everyday questions and examines them in an uncommon way.

1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
2. How is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents?
3. Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?
4. Where Have All the Criminals Gone?
5. What Makes a Perfect Parent?
6. Perfect Parenting, Part II or: Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
Epilogue: Two Paths to Harvard

See what I mean? If this doesn't make you curious enough to read this book, nothing will.

Actually, The Contents and the Introduction as well as the last pages of each chapter will probably satisfy your curiosity. However, you will miss some of the good parts. There are parts that are simply statistics and are quite boring. I skipped over those until a got to another good part.

Recommending this book. It was published in 2005 and is still relevant in 2013.

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