Amazon may as well be in South America

Heading to lake side first thing in the morning.

A large part of my vacations at the camp involves spending a lot of time reading at lake side. With that in mind about two weeks ago Carol and I placed a book order on Amazon.com. Plenty of time to ship stuff as has been our experience in the past. The book I wanted was Polity Agent by, who else, Neal Asher, the fourth book of the Ian Cormac series. Nothing like spending my vacation racing around the galaxy on the knife’s edge of adventure. A couple of days go by and Carol mentions that it’s odd we hadn't received an email shipping notice of our book order. Well, we look it up online and they hadn’t even shipped it yet! In fact, it wasn’t going to be shipped until August 24th – We’d be home from vacation by then not to mention the time it takes to get here. Apparently that’s how long it takes them to get around to packing up shipments. OK, plan “B”. We decide to make a stop at Borders after work one night. Should find another Asher book to fit the bill and I’ll read the Polity Agent later after it finally arrives. So I’m on my noontime walk and I pass a used book store called Annie’s Book Stop. I’d been in a couple of times before but the SciFi selection had been a bit sparse. I decided given the circumstances I should stop in, perused the SciFi shelves carefully and came across a thick paperback titled Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton. Almost a 1,000 pages, a story that spans the galaxy. It’s description sounds promising, I buy it as a backup plan. It turns out the only Asher’s books at Borders are ones I’ve read. So the used book is a good buy, the story is moving along well. Not up to what I get from Asher’s books but top notch SciFi none the less.

Carol and I took a walk today up to the end of Shore Road
then continued along Route 161 a ways where we passed
this farm which has a great view of the surrounding country.

This view of Madawaska Lake overlooks where
the our camp is, on the left side.

Tonight's sunset with a couple guys in
a motorboat hurrying to shore.