Finally stopped raining about an hour ago. That's not to say it couldn't start right back up again, but after two and a half days of pretty much continuous rain, heavy at times, it is nice to not hear it landing on the roof of the trailer.

    It has certainly slowed my activity way down these last couple of days. I did get out yesterday afternoon for a while when it eased off for a little bit. Drove up to the town of Old Town again after a women I contra danced with on Friday night told me where the new Old Town Canoe factory and store were located. Turns out that it wasn't very far from where I was the first time up, less than an 1/8th of a mile or so.

   They have a real nice retail store at the front of their factory now, so it was fun to go in and poke around for a while. The store was big enough to have at least one of every type boat they make displayed in it, and since they joined up with the plastic kayak manufacture a couple years ago, there are a lot of different models now. Still no luck with the 18 1/2 foot Penobscot, the women there was able to confirm that they stopped making it because they weren't selling enough of them. My promise to buy at least 5 if they would just start making them again didn't seem to impress her to much either. Guess all my friends will just have to go on line and find a good used one like I did.

    They do have one new canoe model out that was just beautiful to look at. It is called the KORU and comes in various lay ups of fiberglass and Kevlar. They had one Kevlar model in the store that had a gloss red finish with highlights of the golden Kevlar shineing through that was just stunning. At 17'-5" long and 48 pounds for the Kevlar boat it should be fast and easy to paddle. Of course, all of that beauty comes with a price tag well north of $3,500, but it should be able to compete with any Bell or Wenona boat out there.

    Wandered down the river on the way back to Bangor, but it doesn't take long to do the 25+ miles back to the trailer. Spent last evening watching movies, reading and playing on the computer.

    It was raining hard this morning so there was no hurry to get up and get moving. Spent the morning reading the funnies and catching up on the news. By 3:00 though I was going a little stir crazy. Looked up the address of the local Mall in Bangor and drove over there just for something to do and as a way to get out and walk a little bit. A couple complete trips around the inside of the mall netted me a good couple of miles of walking so I was ready to go do something else after that. There is a 10 screen movie theatre right next door so I ended up going and seeing the 'Boys Night Out' movie 'Looper's'. Actually more interesting and better done than is usual for this type of film. It actually had a plot, decent acting and just enough gratuitous sex and violence to be a good guys night out movie.

    Once back at the trailer it was time for a little dinner and a chance to watch a couple episodes of The Big Bang Theory on DVD. Picked up the 5th season DVDs a couple of weeks ago and have been watching a couple nearly every day. They still crack me up even if I have seen some of them 2 or more times each.

   Am hoping for a nicer day tomorrow, or at least one where it isn't raining quite as hard. Would like to get some laundry done in the next day or two and it would be nice if it wouldn't rain on it after it was all washed.

    Also need to go over to the AAA office and pick up a couple of maps and a campground guide for the Boston and DC area's. Thought I had a copy of all that area... but evidently not. Have been trying to figure out where to stay the week after next and then a couple weeks after that. Would like to go to a weekend dance in Charlottsville, Virginia, but so far there don't seem to be any places to camp, near to where the dance is. It will all come together at some point though, it always does anyway.