States driven through in order

1. Ohio 
2. Pennsylvania 
3. New York
4. Pennsylvania 
5. New York 
6. Massachusetts 
7. New Hampshire 
8. Maine
9. New Hampshire 
10. Vermont
11. New York 
12. Pennsylvania 
13. Ohio

Maine or Bust Trip.. By the numbers

Miles traveled = 2,875

States traveled = 7
Miles Hiked >40

Calls to AAA = 1

Tolls = $23.00

Highest gas price = $3.84

Lowest Gas Price = $3.61

Lobster eaten = 11

Moose sighted = 0
Bear sightings = 0
Bear encounters = 1, sort of.  Read July 17 for explanation

Trip Quotes

"I didn't get the point of hikes, why don't you just go on the Internet and look at the pictures."
-Lillian Hall


"You can't do this on the internet!"
-Greg while dropping into Emerald Lake from a rope swing.

"This is my second helping of ice cream tonight.  Oh well, they make caskets for fat people, too".
-Helen Pransky

As we walked past some dog poop, Greg warned Luke from stepping in it by pointing at it and saying "dung, son"

Shane replied, "that sounds like Luke's Chinese name....Dung Son"

Greg added to the name by calling Luke "Dung Son Goon". 

"Where's Jen?"
-Shane, as she is sitting in the chair right next to where I am standing.  


"I wish we had some whipped cream." 
-Lillian, as we were hiking and coming across a lot of wild blueberry bushes.  

"Seen it.  Bought it.  Broke it."
-Rogan describing a splat ball being demonstrated at a gift shop.

"Get your thing wet."

-Overheard Greg saying to Luke in the shower.  By 'thing' he meant wash cloth.

"Why don't I have a quote yet?"
-Mikah

"I like to eat, eat, eat mangos mangos!"
-Lilly

"Put your tongue behind the top of your feet."
Jen, trying to get us all to smile nicely in a unique way.

"Beth went in for a terminal puke.  She had her back arched and everything."
-Greg