August 14, 2002

Our talk isn't until this evening in Bar Harbor. It's an hour away, so we took off in the morning to spend the day at Acadia National Park not far from the village. We hiked, saw the sites, "swam" in the ocean (freezing!), and ate a seafood dinner by the lake - crab cakes, popovers, it couldn't be more Maine! Our talk was scheduled at St. Savior's Episcopal Church (our Presbyterian "gigs" are over), where some members have been very active with Sabeel. There was a photo essay courtesy of Sabeel which showed some pretty graphic stuff from the last two years in the Territories. The crowd was large, especially for an evening as warm as it was - no air-conditioning this far north. The evening outside, it turned out, was quite cool - a good time for a walk along the piers eating lobster ice cream (actually, it's quite good) before beginning the long drive back to Deer Isle.