Day 10: Camping!

I started driving without a purpose. I reached Grant’s Cove, where I saw this caterpillar hanging in mid air. I thought this was a wonderful opportunity to experiment with Julia’s fancy camera.

Me and the caterpillar played there for quite a while. I then decided to visit Bangor. The downtown area of Bangor is really cute. I walked around a bit and visited the UMASS art museum, where I was really impressed with the work of Chris Natrop. He laser-cuts stuff, and he’s into lilies.

I then had lunch in some pub. The Weather was great, and I thought that it’s a perfect time for camping. I found a Walmart, where I equipped myself with beer, vegetables, eggs and mosquito repellent and headed to Pushaw Lake Campground. I set up my tent as I got there, since I really didn’t want to deal with it at dark. I managed to set it up surprisingly fast, considering the fact that I really didn’t remember how.

I then sat with my computer outside the office for a while. The three of you that are actually reading these posts, you might have noticed that I was a few days behind. This was a wonderful opportunity to catch up. When I got hungry, I went back to my tent and tried to light the stove that Andy, a colleague from the Lab, lent me. It’s not one of those conventional stoves – it runs on fuel. Any kind of fuel. I fought with it for quite a while until I realized I had the thing upside down. By then, it was clogged with gas. The best way I know to get rid of gas is to burn it, so I started a fire, and then dipped the stove in it. It worked like magic, and I was on my way to making shakshuka (an Israeli dish, basically tomatoes and eggs). It was getting dark, and since the camp fire is confined to a fire ring, the light from it is not very helpful. I managed to make the shakshuka, some salad, and Turkish coffee in the dark, and I was very pleased with the results. And with myself…

While I was eating I thought to myself that I will have to wash the dishes in the bathroom, and the path is dark. If only I had a flashlight! But wait, I did have a flashlight. Why was I cooking in the dark in the first place? Man, It’s so hard being me.