Our last morning at Ray’s started with beautiful weather, but we knew that the rain was coming.  Another great breakfast, goodbyes and thanks all around, and we were on the road again. Our camper was where we left it.  We gave our paltry payment to “Jimmy” the owner, and headed towards home. It was an…

We woke from our first night at Ray’s cabin ready to enjoy the unseasonably great weather.  We had a great breakfast of waffles, then chatted a bit and discussed possible activities.  Scott and Tom decided to go bike riding around the lake, while the rest of the group and Ray’s Realtor Vinny (who came for…

Today was the day to travel to Ray’s “camp” in the Adirondacks.  Since the road to his camp and lake were too rough for the camper (and we had scored beds at Ray’s), the idea was to drop the camper near the long and winding road to Ray’s.  However, in the morning Tom had the…

Today was a fairly long and eventful day compared to relaxing at the Miller/Lyne resort. But, before we begin, let’s clear something up. We discovered our campsite and its namesake town and surrounding other place names have has two spellings: Alburgh and Alburg. And although supposedly, Alburgh was the original, and the “h” was supposed…

Rachael started her day before the rest of us. Her mission was to make about 50 dozen Lemon Poppy seed cookies to sell at a local farmers’ market to augment Brooke’s Cora Ball salary after loosing government funding from the Trump cuts. The rest of us woke up, ate breakfast, and began the process of…

Scott took the opportunity with the quiet of the Miller/Lyne resort to sleep late, and we then decided to eat lunch before our sightseeing ride in Rachael’s Grenadier station wagon.  Rachael and James have his-and-hers versions of this new adventure machine that looks a bit like a Land Rover Defender, but is much cooler (and…

Our first night/day at the Miller/Lyne resort was great.  After breakfast, we worked on replacing the tow bar and investigating the root cause of the problem with the old one. It turns out that the locking portion of the latch pin had been burred over, most likely from being released while under stress. It also…

We left the campsite after the best bathhouse shower of the trip – high pressure, hot water, a place to put your stuff, etc.  Scott was so enamored with the shower we later learned that he – once more – left his soap in the shower.  Luckily he had more in the camper. Ted had…

A restless and mildly stressful night.  The refrigerator kept beeping and displaying an E3 code – low voltage.  Tom blamed it on poor input voltage, based on flickering lights while on campsite power, but nothing we could think of doing at night solved the problem, so Scott just turned the refrigerator off at 2AM and…

As we woke up we considered how to spend the day.  We knew we wanted to spend as much time as possible with Scott’s Niece Laurel and her husband Kyle, but they had a 2 month old infant – Brooke – and we didn’t want to intrude with too long of a visit. We thought…

Today we couldn’t see Ev and his fiancée Cassidy until the afternoon, so we decided to check out the Fryeburg Fair – only a half hour or so drive from our campground.  Tom had done some research to indicate how big this is – It is Maine’s largest fair, they are open for 8 days…

We woke after our first of three – yes three – nights in  Bridgton, ME.  Scott was excited to see and spend time with his “Little number 2” – Ev Gutierrez – from the Big Brothers program.  Ev lives in Bridgton, and was last seen at Scott’s retirement party in November 2024.  However Ev was…