Today is a short day, we’re staying in Bath tonight with Connie’s cousin Sandy. The route to Bath includes a nice trail from Brunswick to Bath and we arrive shortly after noon. When we arrive at Sandy’s house we meet both Sandy and her grandson Reid. We all have lunch at the waterfront along the Kennebec River before Reid returns home. We explore Bath downtown on our own and then later get a fabulous tour of Bath from Sandy. Bath has a lot of 19th century architecture and we see the Bath Iron Works, a major ship builder for the US Navy. Sandy also takes us to get a personal tour of the library, in particular the children’s library. The walls of the children’s section are painted in murals by Dahlov Ipcar. Dahlov Ipcar is a local children’s author and illustrator who is known nationally for several books including The Calico Jungle, Hardscrabble Harvest, and The Cat At Night. After our tour we have a very good dinner with a great view of the Highway 1 bridge crossing the Kennebec. Our dinner was very enjoyable with a lot of conversation. As it got dark we could see the bridge silhouetted by lights on the bridge as well as the lights from the cars driving across.