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Acadia National Park June 16-19

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As I lugged my belongings across the river from Fenway House to MIT, from where we would depart, I felt rather unprepared for the 80 degree weather in Cambridge. I was wearing jeans and a sweater and had packed for the forecasted 50-60 degree, rainy/cloudy weather that was forecasted for the weekend. While it was cloudy, we didn't encounter rain until making to the Portland area. Visibility was low in some of these rain bursts. During one of these bursts, the driver suddenly realized that there was only one bar of gas left. We had not heard any warnings and hoped to make it to the next exit. The car sputtered and slowed down to close to 20 miles an hour. We wouldn't make it to the gas station three miles down and decided to pull over. We contemplated Enterprise roadside assistance, but decided that our best roadside assistants would be our MITOC friends. Luckily, another car was a few minutes behind us and brought us the last canister of gas from the gas station. This was a les...