I had the opportunity recently to travel to Maine on assignment to cover the Jackson Laboratory, a genetic research facility that is looking to add a campus in our corner of the world. While access at the lab was slim pickings, the town of Bar Harbor Maine was full of photo fun.
Last night was one of the better New Year’s Eves I’ve had. Lexey, Tristan, and I headed out with our cameras just before 11:30pm on a journey (three mile walk) to the center of Naples to meet Tristan’s wife, who was working at a local restaurant. We thought we left in plenty of time, but stopping so often to take photos of the bright sky and blue moon, we didn’t make much progress.
With 10 minutes until the new year, our pace quickened. With two minutes to go, we finally had the restaurant in our sights. My legs felt like they were on fire from walking so fast. When we entered the restaurant, I looked up at the TV over the bar, expecting to see that we missed it, but to my surprise there was 30 seconds to go.
Now if Tristan could just find his wife.
We walked all the way to the back of the restaurant with no sign of her. And as the chorus of revelers counted down to four seconds, Sarah emerged from the kitchen. It felt like a movie. We then stayed and had a few drinks kicking off 2010 just right.
Photos from our adventure.
