Clare had her last follow-up with the foot surgeon yesterday and today we drove to spend Easter with her mom in Ohio. On the [eight-hour] drive, she made initial reservations for us to make a hiking trip to
Acadia National Park in mid-July. This would be our first trip other than to see family since pre-Covid.
For this post I learned how to use ON1 Photo Raw’s Line Mask tool because I wanted to blur the catalog company’s name on the cover. Why? Because — with the benefit of hindsight posting several months later —
this trip never happened.
With hindsight
The airline flight from St. Louis was eventually delayed 30½ hours. When that eventuality became apparent, we pulled the plug on the entire trip. Our program was to begin on a Sunday afternoon and the [Dallas-Fort Worth-based] airline couldn’t get us to Bangor before midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning. Once in Bangor, we would still have to pick up a rental car, drive to Bar Harbor, arriving there at 1–2 a.m., check in to sleep and get up for breakfast and the beginning of Tuesday’s activities. We would miss a full day-plus and start the program worn out from two full days of airports and travel.
We had trip insurance for the flights and trip insurance for the program, but it still took upwards of 10 weeks to get the last of our money back from the program group. We are not anxious to travel with them again (for two reasons*), so I’ve blurred their name on their catalog cover above.
Maine is a state I haven’t visited, so today I am excited, only to be disappointed in mid-July.
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* (1) Ten weeks for reimbursement when the trip insurance says if you cancel “
for any reason”… Filing a claim was arduous, time-consuming and lengthy.
(2) It’s apparent from our [future] experience and others we know, that the airlines’ schedules are not reliable. Obviously, they cannot control the weather, but our initial delay in July would not be for weather, but rather “maintenance,” which probably became a crew problem (original crew “timing out”), then weather, then…
[Steps off soapbox]
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Looking back
1 year ago:
“PSA: ‘What’s in your phone?’”
2 years ago:
“Reading with Daddy”
3 years ago:
“Water break #1”
4 years ago:
“Another won’t-miss-it item (there are so many!)”
5 years ago:
“Snow on a freshly-mowed lawn…”
6 years ago:
“Travel day through Indy”
7 years ago:
“The Vale”
8 years ago:
“Canal Street, NOLA”
9 years ago:
“Pregnant onion, ‘in living color’”
10 years ago:
“Dinner at Raymond & Jeanne’s…”
11 years ago:
“Easter vigil: candle bokeh…”
12 years ago:
“No ‘tip-toeing’ necessary!”
![We’re goin’ hiking in Acadia! [Travel day] by rhoing](https://media.365project.org/1/9352475_abcdhos146_l.jpg "We’re goin’ hiking in Acadia! [Travel day] by rhoing")
![A ‘school photo’ portrait [Filler]](https://media.365project.org/1/9434205_hijklnqsv2_sq.jpg "A ‘school photo’ portrait [Filler]")
I spent quite a bit of time using the mask brush and was still unhappy with the result, so I explored the Line Mask and it was easy-peasy, and flexible in being able to pull on handles for curved boundaries!