Getting to Know You!

[CorsairMac]

Fait accompli: Put on our own Passover Seder in 2005....got dinner on the table only 17 minutes into the holiday meal---read Hagaddah at FedEx warp speed, entire evening wrapped up, dessert and coffee, within 2 hours!!

ROFLMAO! I Loved the way you wrote that! Thanks for the grins and giggles - and welcome to the board!

[CorsairMac]

welcome to the board Traveller! Mt Desert Island?? it was the last place my ex took me and I LOVED the island - hated the time spent with the ex! ROFL

I vaguely remember renting bikes and riding the carriage trails there - does that sound right?? He was such a jackazz when it came to riding I may have blocked that memory out! (yet another reason he's an ex! )

If it wasn't for your winters I would've loved to have moved there!!

[traveller_62]

welcome to the board Traveller! Mt Desert Island?? it was the last place my ex took me and I LOVED the island - hated the time spent with the ex! ROFL

I vaguely remember renting bikes and riding the carriage trails there - does that sound right?? He was such a jackazz when it came to riding I may have blocked that memory out! (yet another reason he's an ex! )

If it wasn't for your winters I would've loved to have moved there!!

Thanks for the welcome, CorsairMac. I've enjoyed this message board. Great stuff gets posted here and I've found the board to be full of very supportive, enthusiastic cyclists.

I'm bummed that your memories of MDI include a not so great experience with your ex. If you come back to visit let me know and we'll go out for a great ride around the island. There is some awesome cycling here.

Just as you mention, there are 50-plus miles of carriage road trails that wind through Acadia National Park. No cars are allowed on them but you do have to watch out for folks on horseback! I tend to spend more time on the Park Loop Road (asphalt) than on the Carriage Roads (dirt/gravel).

Winters aren't too bad except that we don't have much daylight. Because we are on the ocean it doesn't get as cold here as it does elsewhere in Maine. But I like the cold weather so it suits me pretty good. When we decent snow, the Carriage Roads are just the ticket for some great cross country skiing. And when there is no snow there is always ice skating across the many lakes and ponds!