The colds are making decisions for us

Wednesday July 17 & Thursday July 18, 2013
Site 730, Narrows II Campground
Trenton, ME

 

WEDNESDAY

I didn’t mention in yesterday’s post that David woke up with a cold.

Poor thing went right on with that huge long day blowing his nose constantly.  And it was a very full day if you read the post before this one.  Paddling, hiking, shopping, partying.

This morning I woke up with the cold.  We are both feeling pretty tired and crummy but we still have these batteries to deal with. 

 

 

We install them and test them.  They are at 12.5.   They should be 13.5.  So we turn on the generator to charge them.  The output from the converter is right on the dot so we hope throwing money at this problem via these new batteries will solve it.

 

While David is working on this I go into Bar Harbor for some orange juice and other foods for colds like chicken noodle soup.  I pick up some Halls Echinachea and zinc tabs.  While there I also get that extra key for Winnona’s door so no one will be locked out again AND I pick up two sets of lobster tools since we have no idea what happened to ours.

 

 

 

As the day goes along I am feeling worse and worse.  My cold has turned, as it usually does for me, into a chest condition with a TB sounding cough.  But it’s been so long since either of us has had a cold that I didn’t remember how bad the coughing was for me.  The most recent date on any cold medications I can find in Winnona is 2007.  It’s been a long time since we’ve had colds.

 

David’s immune system is holding its own.  We are thrilled with that.  He has a normal cold and no fever.  I’m the one with the fever.

By the end of the day I am pretty worn out and just don’t see how we can, in this condition move to Seawall for two more weeks of boondocking as much as I’d like to.

 

We do manage to have lobster for dinner again though!   I mean there are some things you HAVE to do regardless of a cold.  Right??

 

 

I look sicker than he does I think.  But I’m still loving my lobster.  Thanks again to Al and Karen Phillips for such an easy dinner when we don’t feel well.  All we have to do is warm it up.

 

 

THURSDAY

 

We sleep on the idea of giving up Seawall and moving off the island to a private park where 6 of our friends have been for nearly 3 weeks. 

 

They like the park a lot and although it is not the sort of place we normally prefer to stay, it will simplify our lives tremendously to have full hook ups and easy phone and internet.

I call and cancel Seawall.  I call and reserve Narrows II.

I’m really sad to leave Blackwoods.  I have really loved being here.  But we have to leave tomorrow anyway, our two weeks is up.

I’m also sad to leave actually staying inside the Acadia National Park and on Mount Desert Island  but the private campgrounds on the island are out of our price range.  So we are moving to Narrows II which is in Trenton Maine just over the bridge to the island.  They have a one month special rate of $795 so we’ve extended our stay in the area by 2 weeks and that’s fine too since we are feeling so under the weather that we look forward to having more time here.  

 

It is definitely wonderful to be able to be flexible.  Life happens after all.

We decide to move today so we can have the whole day to do it rather than have to beat an 11:00 am deadline for check out tomorrow.  We are sleeping a lot trying to give our bodies the rest they need to fight these germs so getting up and at it and closing everything up after a two week stay is best done slowly over a day rather than in a rush tomorrow morning.

 

And it does take us the entire day to do it.  We forfeit our Thursday night fee and move to Narrows Too arriving around 5:00.   David goes directly to the park.  I go by the post office in Bar Harbor to pick up our general delivery mail and then go by the Park Headquarters since, due to the sequester, mail is no longer delivered to the campgrounds and David’s most important medication is delivered to him overnight by Fed X each month. 

The folks at Narrows II give us spot 730 in the row right behind all our friends.   Everyone comes over to welcome us and wish us well battling these colds.

 

 

The site is totally out in the open which will make for hotter days than we have had in the heavily forested Blackwoods but with electricity we will have air conditioning again.  Our site is on a bit of a rise and we can see a bit of Frenchman’s bay off in the distance.  The duckies like this view.

This place isn’t my first choice but easy is what we need now until we feel better. We have certainly been through a lot worse things than these recent woes.  They too will pass in time.  The best news is David’s immune system is working better than mine.  And we have great friends here whom we will get to see a lot more of now that we are right next door.

Good decision!!