Maya begins her summer internship at Brookhaven National Labs on Monday.  Today we drove to Stony Brook, New York to get her moved in and oriented.  She is staying with a family we met through the Unitarian church. Their home is a wonderful sanctuary just a few minutes walk from the Village Green and they have a dog named Bradly who Maya has already befriended.  We took some time to visit the operational Stony Brook Grist Mill where we received assistance weighing ourselves on the massive scale.

We also visited nearby Stony Brook beach and the West Meadows Wetland Reserve where there was much birdlife to enjoy.

After driving to and from the Brookhaven Labs (for practice) and having lunch nearby, Maya dropped me off in Port Jefferson where I took a ferry to Bridgeport, Connecticut and then a train to Boston.