New reality.......

7:31 am - Saturday - August 11th - Southwest Harbor, ME - 61º F, 86% humidity, wind 1 mph out of the north......partly cloudy with a forecast high today of 74º F.  Got down to 64º F in the coach last night!  First time it has been under 78º in over a month.....sweet!

For the first time in days we just hung out at home relaxing and reveling in our new reality.  As you know, we interviewed for jobs at another campground on Tuesday, and are pretty sure we will start our jobs next week.  In the interim TLE and I have been talking a lot about not taking the jobs, and just becoming tourists for our final 4, or 5 weeks in Maine.  Originally we had planned to remain in Maine until late October, but now our thinking is we will do all the hikes and bike rides we had planned and just get them all done over the next month, heading out afterwards to explore Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, and Rhode Island for another 5 weeks before we land in Campbellsville, KY to to work peak season for Amazon after which we will head further south to Florida.  These (Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, and New Jersey) are the states we have not yet visited in the northeastern portion of our country.....we actually did spend about 35 minutes passing through New Hampshire on our way north on I-95 to Southwest Harbor, but that doesn't really count, does it?  Once we have visited them we will only have Alaska left to visit in our Newell to complete the 49 States in North America.  Obviously, we will not be taking our Newell to Hawaii, but we have personally been to Hawaii many years ago on our 20th wedding anniversary, and I was there in 1970 while I was in college.

When we were in Ellsworth on Thursday we bought two Linksys WiFi range extenders/repeaters to help amplify Tony's home WiFi signal.  Their router is in their bedroom, and quite a ways from our coach.  Tony wanted one for their kitchen to broadcast the signal out into their large yard so he can listen to Pandora when he is mowing the lawn, or working on his cars.  We were able to get the one he put in his kitchen connected and working on Thursday, but I was having difficulty getting ours, out in the Newell, to connect with the one in the kitchen.  Finally, on Friday morning I succeeded in getting ours to connect with the one in the kitchen, and now am typing today's blog entry using their wonderful WiFi.  The signal we got without either extender was quite weak, and kept dropping out, as they say.  Now, with two extenders we can stream Netflix again!  How good is that?

The Linksys "Range Extender" as seen through our passenger window

The rest of the day was spent tidying up the trailer, reinstalling the wheel covers on the Newell and trailer tires, putting out our rope lights, and going to West Marine to buy some new flip flops for moi, and to Napa Auto for some Turtle Wax 'Bug and Tar Remover'......these are the flip flops I leave outside before entering the coach, and they finally gave up the ghost after 6.5 years.  I originally bought them in Port Aransas, TX (near Corpus Christi) in March of 2012.....I think they cost me under $10 at the time.  Considering how many days they have spent outside in the sun, and the rain, and everything in between it is amazing they lasted this long!

Later in the evening we lit a fire in the outdoor fireplace included with the site Tony and his wife Janet have so graciously offered to us.  Janet came out for about an hour to join us and talk for a while......a nice way to end a an already relaxing day.......

There is a lot of decking and railroad ties in our yard, so I laid out the rope lights to highlight the obstacles hidden by the night

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