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...