Belgrade Lakes Region, Maine, July 17, 2005 — We get up pretty early. We think we will relax, eat, drink coffee, wait for the owner to change rooms. Again. We are not quite sure why this is required except that the first night we had a handicapped room, the next two beds. Go figure. It is OK. We drink coffee and read, sitting on the lawn behind the inn. It's pleasant. The ducks walk up to us expectantly. We had thought of driving to Freeport to shop. But even Freeport seems like shopping anywhere else to us. We've been reading about the Maine International Film Festival. Why not see if we can see a film? It's in Waterville, not too far away, even with the ponds (lakes) that you have to drive around.

We get tired of waiting for the owner and just leave our stuff packed in the room and leave. We drive to Waterville using the info in the paper as a guide. We find the Railroad Center Cinema, the major venue, but it's too early and nothing has started. People in two other cars are sitting talking in the parking lot. We ask them about the festival, where to eat. They say to follow them. This we do ending up a bit north at the Riverside Farm Market for breakfast. Very cool place.

We drive back to see Le Gout de Jeunes Filles. While we are waiting we meet Janet Pierson who lives in Austin. She and her husband John are there exhibiting Reel Paradise which I think we saw at SXSW.

We get in easily to see Le Gout. It's a movie made from a Haitian novel. Very enjoyable. The filmmaker is there to talk to the small audience. After the show we head Back to the Village Inn. Get room switched for third time. Then we head over to my aunt's place for beer and lobster rolls. I pack my cooler with ice and blue ice and frozen bottles of water to keep a small portion of lobster to eat for breakfast tomorrow.

We go back to the Village Inn, pack up and try to get some sleep before another big drive. I dream of travel but, for the first time I ever remember, space travel. I'm thinking as I suit up in the space suit whether I need a shovel and how neat it will be to have gone to space.