God's Country

This was the first year in three years that I spent my birthday at home. I'm not depressed or otherwise negatively thinking about having another birthday, I just didn't feel like making a big deal out of it. But you guys are fabulous. You remembered. Even without my pleas for Bionic Woman DVD's or anything else for that matter. I love you guys so much, you really do so much more for me than I can ever do for you.

My Mom asked what I wanted for my B-day.

"Time....with you"

Well, that's a given because we always end up doing dinner or something together. She wanted to know what "thing" I wanted. How do I explain that there isn't any one "thing" that I want. What I really want is what I already have most of the time. Peace, tranquility, contentment and time. Time to enjoy the things I already have. Time to plan for the things I still seek. Time to reflect. Even time to brood.

She gave me the gift of time. 9+ hours and 250 miles of fun, amazement and love.

Our mode of transportation

We traveled down many paths.


They showed me some of the best kept secrets of Maine and NH. AKA God's Country


How could I live in Maine for 41 years and never have seen the "Height of the Land"? Well I hadn't and OMG...it is even more spectacular than I imagined. I took about a half dozen pix and still could not capture it. Some wild and raw things are not meant to be captured.


My gracious guides.
Have I said how much I love them??? Well I doooo. A million fold.

See how happy they made me. (See how unkept my hair looks after a bike ride. Just a note of advice...always put your hair up before riding. Wind knots are the worst. I couldn't begin to get a comb through my hair even after conditioning it. I had to put it up in a messy bun and go to Walmart for a bottle of Johnson's No More Tangles, which helped but wasn't the miracle worker they tout it to be.)

And at the end of the day I couldn't resist a sunset pic. Can you ever have too many sunset pix? After all not all sunsets were created equal.