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Episode 23
6/19
So we are now parked at a boondockers welcome location in New Hampshire we had planned to be here for five nights and through various circumstances we ended up staying 10 nights with this lovely couple and became lifelong friends with them. So while staying at this location we visited Gloucester Massachusetts. This town is on a rocky Cape called Cape Ann and it's home to the Gorton's fisherman. So while making the show notes for this episode I googled what is a cape land mass. I dare you to do the same I was lost within three sentences. We spent the day wondering capan and we ate at the seaport grill. This was the first time that a restaurant offered us blankets while sitting outside. It was really nice. We also walk through Rockport and bears neck. Would a wonderful stress reducing day. So we were planning on driving north to another town in New Hampshire to stay at another boondock welcome location but they contacted us and said even though we were more than welcome to come the black flies and ticks were really bad which is why we ended up staying at this location for so long.
So after our extended stay with these wonderful people we drove another 4 hours North which included stops for gas propane and lunch to Augusta Maine. This is Maine's state capital. The driving was very very windy and we avoided i-95 as much as possible. The problem with the Northeast seacoast is if you don't take i-95 it could take you an additional two or three hours to go 60 miles because of all the curving of the land mass along the Atlantic ocean. We stayed at another boondock welcome location here with a lovely couple. We went over to the kennebec valley rail trail and rode our bikes long the river. This path took us through two lovely little towns one was hallowell and the other was gardiner. We found this little bar that was going to have live music that evening in hollowell. So we rode our bike back to the rig had dinner and we invited our host to meet us there which they did. Couple of days later we drove to schoodic peninsula Maine and we stayed there two nights. This was another boondocker welcome location. While there we visited schodic peninsula which is a hidden part of Acadia national Park. I never heard of this area before. If you're standing in bar harbor and you look across the water you will see schoodic peninsula. This area is much quieter than Acadia and mount desert Island. We did a bunch of short hikes and walked along the carriage trails. It was a deep fog which created the opportunity for great photographs which you can see on my Facebook page.
The night the heat wouldn't kick on and our battery warning alarm went off at 4:00 a.m. so we started the generator in the furnace kicked on. The next day we were heading to Acadia national Park by Mount desert island to stay at a Passport America campground (which cost us $25/night and here's a link to Passport America on our discounts page Relaxrv.org/discounts) along the way we stopped and we bought a deep cycle 90 AMP hour battery. We took out the three agms and put in the new battery. We also picked up the space heater just in case. Problem solved right? No! At the campground that night we were plugged in and the furnace stopped working. We plugged in our new space heater which got us through the night. The furnace was throwing a code cold ignition lockout fault. We called a shop and they said our circuit board was bad and they have one in stock. We drove 30 miles we got there and he said you know I was thinking about it and it's not your circuit board it's probably your gas valve. I said but that's weird because we do have a nice blue flame at the stove and water heater. He said no it has to be your gas valve. We left there we went to another shop he also said it was the gas valve. So we left there and we called another shop called Webbs RV. They said none of this sounds right to me it was a favor go get the rig and bring it here and we'll take a look at it. So we drove 45 minutes back to the RV and drove the RV back to the shop. The mechanic came out and looked at it and the furnace kicked right on. He said your sail switch was probably Frozen and driving it here losened it up. He showed me how to solve a frozen sail switch in the future. Their website is www.webbsrv.com
I made a video showing how to do it simply and here is a link to the video. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwH6GhSMBDJ7qKxsLng-TA?view_as=subscriber
I was nervous about the sail switch failing in the future so I bought a replacement one at his shop for like 15 bucks and I will always keep it in the rig just in case. I'm glad that I know a little bit about maintenance and the various systems on rigs. and the longer I own one the more I learn. Had I blindly trusted the first couple of RV shops we would have been stuck there for a few days waiting for this board to come in which would not have solved our problem. Owning a rig is really turning me into a mechanic LOL. So we finally got to see Acadia national Park and bar harbor. We were there on the Tuesday after memorial Day and the locals said this is the quietest time of the season. It's after memorial Day so everything is open but it's too cold for the tourists. The next morning we drove up Cadillac mountain but there was no sunrise to be seen. Cadillac mountain is the first place on the continental United States that you can see the sunrise. I've tried to see it up there twice and both times the clouds prevented it. The next day we hiked by Sand Beach which is actually sand and big boulders. We met a gentleman from Hawaii who was full timing it and he was a support wagon for his son who is hiking the A.T.
After we left Acadia national Park we drove up to Campobello Island. We stayed at another boondock welcome location with a wonderful couple. This island is in Canada and there was only one bridge to the island which leaves from Lubec Maine. Lubec is the most eastern town in the United States.
So to get on and off this island you need to go through customs.
We saw the Roosevelt Cottage lol. And we had "Tea with Eleanor" which was really nice. Now keep in mind this was off season (Canada's busy time starts June 1st( so we had not trouble getting a free ticket. During the summer you need to be on line at 8am to get a ticket for the Tea.
The next day we hiked 6 miles in the Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Out in the Bay Of Fundy (the home of the highest tides in the world, 53'), we saw a mommy seal and her pup. We tried to visit the head harbor light station but we didn't time it with the tide. You need to walk across a Street at low tide and we missed it by about a half hour. We spent 3 nights which was perfect amount of time for us. This is a pretty big island it's twice the size of key West but much colder. On June 2nd it was 55° and a low of 44 at night.
Here's a short video of the seal we saw: https://business.facebook.com/relaxrvpodcast/videos/620548801811539/


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