Descriptive Essay: Grand Lake Stream

Every year, my brother, my mom, my dog, and I go to Grand Lake Stream for the 4th of July. We meet up with a large group of family friends and we all stay in cabins or houses. Grand Lake Stream is a quaint town in Maine, and there’s only one store in the town, the Pine Tree general store. Grand Lake is about a ten hour drive from Saratoga, New York. Last year, the drive took longer than usual.
It’s late afternoon, about three or four, and we are about nine hours into the drive. To get into town we have two options: Route 1, or the logging road. The logging road is a dirt road that takes off about 45 minutes of travel time. We decide to take the logging road and it’s very muddy from a rainstorm that happened the day before. The air is damp and smells of pine. Large pine trees are all we can see ahead of us. …show more content…
“This is great,” I say sarcastically. My mom pulls into a campsite to ask for an alternate route. She is wearing a light blue, “Life is good” T-shirt. She has fair hair and a friendly, bright personality. A young couple at the campsite tells us a logging truck had broken the bridge and the log was placed there so no one could attempt to cross it. The youthful man says, “Instead of driving on the main road, you can take Sugar Camp road.” and my mom thanks