just back from an amazing Dispatch concert at Shelburne museam… 

went with Steve and Kate.. ran into so many other friends there x.. here’s juba. ellen and diane 

 

Chad from dispatch looked  good and healthy,. felt good to see him  

 

 

 

great rendition of ‘uncle John’s band ‘ !

 

dropped off some samstone for chad and his bandmates =

cant keep my eyes open.. more tomorow

note all. note  sam

-me

 

 

 

it was a great evening out

 

nite all, nite san

Busy day today. Was happy when evening came around. Our friends Kate and Steve are up from Pennsylvania.. we grilled and ate outside in the beautiful

weather.

we lit a fire which was a treat in the cool air

 

we traded stories about all being in Pittsburgh together.. hard to believe it was 30 years ago !

time for bed

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

another great nights sleep.. 

got up early and jumped in the lake.. that woke me up//

 

breakfast was pancakes.. but I ate leftovers.. 

 

 

then we went out for an 8 mile paddle.. first mission was to take beer to o check, the caretaker on the next island over.. knghts islan 

 

luckily we foudn chuck right away when we landed on knoghts island. coud have been a difficult time finding him 

 

I made a samstone to leaver tehre 

 

I also fond an awesome heart shaped rock !

 

then john. ben and I headed another 2 miles over to North hero and her’s welcoem store.. 

 

binged up on ice cream !

 

then bakc 2 miles ot pick up jeff.. and  another 2 miles bk to our camp 

 

happy hour prep was in fuil; swing.. frozen drik  and cheese fondue were on the menu 

 

ben braught special fondue ingreadiants.. kirsh, etc. 

 

we each made our own fondue forks .. and ther ewas a judging.. mine was considere3d to avante garde.. (and too dirty) 

 

the fondue was fab !

 

pretty soon ist was tiem for me to go.. .. I had to be back today to get my car ut before sundown when they lock the gate 

 

ben . john and moyers escorted me back.. so nice of them.. 

soon we were back on the mainland at kilkare park 

 

 

 

 

here’s my escrts/ buar, ben.moters and nwet 

 

driving home happy and tired after 9 miles of paddling today. 

 

 

ok.. time for sleep// more tomorrow

nite all. nite sam

-me

again delayed post.. since I didn’t want   to have to be online during hogisland .

BTW ‘hogisland’   was a miss-reading that ben and john did of a map that labeled an island nearby called ‘hog’s island’ as hogisland’.. which sounds so much more mystical… hence the name of the trip 

 

I woke ealry after a great night sleep…    FIrst thing I did was to run the path aroudn the island.. there are 5 camp sites..  one was always empt.. and average of 3 folks per. meant maybe 15 folks on the island. 

 

 

the east side of the sland was really hot.. and covered with ripe raspberries. 

 

when I got back, breakfast was in full swing. here are andy. john and jeff. eationg the wonderful ginger cookies tht diane had sent along with me. 

 

ben , moyers and andy here. 

 

gabe lent me his cool pot that doubles as a cell phone charger. 

 

kielbasa on 

 

jeff, who lives in Hamburg Germany, runs a cheesecake company there.. he braugth one wiht s and it was SO good !

 

I spent the day hking. tlaking. meditating. sleeping 

 

 

in afternoon we all got the money for the boat rentals and  grocieris out.. we’d all braugh it all in 1’s. the idea was to stamp it wiht be’s ‘get money out of politics’ stamps 

 

pelase check out https://www.stampstampede.org

 

 

mis stamping ,  our buddy CHuck shows up in his boat with more supplies and AMy is almost 16 year old dog.. good. good dog 

 

Baure and I took a sunset cruse whiel others worked on dinner 

 

 

 

 

then an early bed time..

such a relaxing day !
great freinds. great conversation.. great setting !
nite all. nite sam
-mc