We awoke just about three and a half hours after falling asleep in the Sieur de Monts parking lot. It was dark and so peaceful beneath the birch trees there, and even though the car didn’t provide the most comfortable accommodations, we both got some rest and awoke just before 6:00am for a drink of water and to start our day.

We have been fortunate. For us, the past year and a half was different, tough at times, but mostly business as usual or easy enough to adapt to. The one thing we really missed was traveling. We were so sure when we had to cancel our Maine trip last September that we would be back, and everything else would be back in normal working order too, in 2021—certainly by September 2021.