On the way there, we pulled out at a scenic look-out. Boy, am I glad they could accommodate our big rig! What a view!! In the distance - THE Mt. Katahdin. At 5268 ft, it is the highest point in ME. It's also the northern finish line for the Appalachian Trail, as well as the southern start of the International AT (which I guess currently goes all the way through the Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, with plans for it to extend into several more countries! I got to hike on some of the IAT while in Quebec). 
"My Brother's Place" had a weird name (who knows, maybe it was her brother's place though?!) but was a nice campground. Very pretty. The lady running the place was kind of strange, but I guess that keeps things interesting, right? At one point, she was walking by with her little dog. We said Hi and she came over with her dog. Our kitties were out on their leashes. The little dog was obviously intrigued with the kitties but didn't know how to interact and was resorting to violence. And Ms. Oblivious wasn't doing anything about it!!! She was letting her dog up the ante and become more and more aggressive and not stopping it or moving the dog out of range - and she was in our space! I finally had to loudly and assertively tell her to go away!!!!!!!!! I believe that was the one and only time that happened on our whole trip. Strange, eh? But I'm happy to report that our kitties are not generalizing and holding it against all dogs. Maybe they realized that it was a case of "like mother, like son" or something - they were BOTH strange! But while you sometimes run into weirdos, you also run into genuinely good, aware, smart, well-rounded, and nice people too. Bill really enjoyed talking it up with this new neighbor, who was definitely one of the latter types. Meanwhile, the critters helped hold down the picnic tables and grass (we just hate it when those things get away from us!). 
Tractor shadow boxes, while...in the box. (yes, he IS that much of a character!)
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