In 1980, early one morning at Mt.Desert
Campground a very good friend awakenened me to
say there was a Whale in front of his house on
Somes Sound
(Mount Desert) and to get the boat.It was a
female
Orca (so called killer)whale,that had lost her
way
from the open ocean.
We readied the boat and proceeded to the area
where she was casually swimming in circles. With
the engine shut down we drifted beside her
carefully and discovered she was a very friendly
24 footer. So friendly you could stroke her
back.In the next four hours we learned that she
would follow our wake, so we decided to take her
back to the open ocean, and never saw her again.
Here is a likeness picture of her.
End of Story.
GOD
BLESS
AMERICA
1A. Campground that are PET FRIENDLY
1B. Families on the road FULL TIME Websites are
HERE.
2. Where to eat reasonably,with room to park your
R.V.
3. Where do you get R.V. technical help?
4. How do I get here or there?
(This is a really good map site. It gives you easy to follow loading,T.V. Stations in the area,and LATITUDE,LONGITUDE,even where speed traps are "but we seldom speed" plus more.)
Another Map page
5. Weather conditions.(bottom of page)
6. Lighthouse Pictures
7. For my Sea Animal Picture Album
A.
Moosehead
Maine Humor from Away?
Live Video Camera shots of the Camden Area:
AIRSTREAM OWNERS
10. LINKS to other Maine Sites on the web.
11a. Wanna Camp at a North Carolina Raceway?
A. An I.C.C. switch:
This switch will flash your headlights,or running
lights on and off momentarilly. The switch is
mounted on the drivers door,and if you push it
forward the headlamps blink,pull back and the
running lamps blink.Just like the truckers do.
B. Side-Mounted Turn Signals:
Mounting additional lights on the sides of your
coach and wiring them to your turn signals makes
an inexpensive and easyare available in
theautomotive department of discount department
stores or from auto parts houses. Mount the
lights
near the front of your coach in a location that
can be seen by drivers inadjacent traffic
lanes.These additional lights will help make
driving safer by making your turnsignals more
visible.
Please Note: I think that red lamps are only
allowed facing the rear. I used amber lamps that
are used on the roof of pickups but facing to the
rear.
Even if you don't have a frequency meter in your
coach, checking generator speed can be as easy as
telling time. With the generator running under
normal load, plug in an electric clock that has a
second hand. With a wristwatch or stopwatch, note
the time it takes the electric clock to reach
exactly 60 seconds. A voltmeter can be off scale,
but 60 seconds on the electric clock is a true
60-second cycle. If the electric clock takes
longer to reach 60 seconds than the watch, the
generator is running too slow. If the clock is
faster than the watch, the generator is running
too fast.
D.Sliding Screen Door
For motorhomes equipped with a "slide door" on
the
screen door, here's how to make opening the slide
door easier. Attach a string to the "hook" from
behind the plastic door and extend it across the
door to the screw on the opposite side. Now you
can push down on the string from inside the coach
for easy opening without having to use the
plastic slide all the time. Attaching a plastic
cabinet
doorknob to the slide door also makes opening it
a
cinch.
Here is what I did and it works great:
I installed this system to keep
my V-8 exhaust headers cooler four years ago and
it seams to work fine. It is very inexpensive
considering the consequences.
1. Buy 2-5 foot sections of clothes
drier exhaust vent hose in aluminum. 2. Buy a
roll of mechanics wire, or bailing wire. 3.
Install the front of the hose somewhere near the
grill where the air will flow in easily,and the
rear about 6 to 8 inches from your
exhaustmanifold, and lash it to various frame
members.
This will also keep your engine cover,and cockpit
area cooler.
11. OURRV clickable/printable shopping list.
(take one)
g.
I'm working on more.
RV USA - GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF RV'S more like
this..... - Large RV related site. Lots of
motorhomes, travel trailers, fifth wheels, and
campers. RV dealers by state and city. Check out
RV Clubs, RV Rentals, RV Exports and Guide to the
World of RV's!!
12. TOOLS
13.
1- Duct Tape - Not just a tool, a varyaable Swiss
Army knife in stickum and plastic. Its safety
wire, body material, radiator hose mender,
upholstery, insulation, tow rope, and more in an
easy to carry package. Sure, there's prejudice
surrounding duct tape in concours competitions,
but in the real world, everything from NASCAR® to
Atlas rockets use it by the yard. The only thing
that can get you out of more scrapes is a quarter
and a phone booth.
2- Vice Grips - Equally adept as a wrench, hammer
, pliers, bailing wire twister, breaker-off of
frozen bolts and wiggle-it-till-it falls-off
tool. The heavy artillery of your tool box, vice
grips are the only tool designed expressly to fix
things screwed up beyond repair. 3- Spray
Lubricants - A considerably cheaper alternitive
to new doors, alternator, and other squeaky
items. Slicker than pig phlegm, repeated soakings
will allow the main hull bolts of the Andrea
Doria to be removed by hand. Strangely enough, an
integral part of these sprays is the infamous
little red tube that flies out of the nozzle if
you look at it cross eyed (one of the 10 worst
tools of all time). 4- Margarine Tubs with
Clear Lids - If you spend all your time under the
hood looking for A frendle pin that caromed off
the petal valve when you knocked both off the air
cleaner, it's because you eat butter. Real
mechanics consume pounds of tasteless vegetable
oil replicas just so they can use the empty tubs
for parts containers afterward. (some of course
chuck the butter-colored goo altogether or use it
to repack wheel bearings.) Unlike air cleaners
and radiator lips, margarine tubs aren't
connected by a time/space wormhole to the
Parallel Universe of Lost Frendle Pins.
5- Big Rock at the Side of the Road - Block up a
tire. Smack corroded battery terminals. Pound out
a dent. Bop noisy know-it-all types on the
noodle. Scientists have yet to develop a hammer
that packs the raw banging power of granite or
limestone. This is the only tool with which a
"made in India" emblem is not synonymous with the
user's maiming. 6- Plastic Zip Ties - After 20
years of lashing down stray hose and wiring with
old bread ties, some genius brought a slightly
slicked up version to the auto parts market.
Fifteen zip ties can transform a hulking mass of
amateur quality wiring from a working model of
the Brazilian Rain Forest into something remotely
resembling a wiring harness. Of course it works
both ways. When buying a used car, subtract $100
for each zip tie under the hood.
7- Rediculously Large Standard Screwdriver -
Let's admit it. There's nothing better for
prying, chiseling, lifting, breaking, splitting
or mutilating than a huge flatbladed screwdriver
particularly when weilded with gusto and a big
hammer. This is also the tool of choice for all
filters so insanely located that they can only be
removed by driving a stage in one side and out
the other. If you break the screwdriver --and you
will just like Dad and your shop teacher
said--who cares if it has a lifetime
guarantee.
8- Bailing Wire - Commonly known as MG muffler
brackets. Bailing wire holds anything that's too
hot for tape or ties. Like duct tape, it's not
recomended for concours contenders since it works
so well you'll never need to replace it with the
right thing again. Bailing wire is a sentimental
favorite in some circles, particularly with the
MG, Triumph, and flathead Ford set.
9- Bonking Stick - This monstrous tuning fork
with devilish pointy ends is technically known as
a tie-rod-separator, but how often do you
separate tie-rod ends? Once every decade if
you're lucky. Other than medieval combat, its
real use is the all purpose application of undue
force, not unlike that of the huge flat-bladed
screwdriver. Nature doesn't know the bent metal
panel or frozen exhaust pipe that can stand up to
a good bonking stick. (Can also be use to
separate Tie-rod ends in a pinch, of course, but
does a lousy job of it). 10- A Quarter and a
Phone Booth - See tip #1 above
Collection of Magazines and Newspapers related to
Camping and R.V.ing
8. Wild Animals Pictures
9. Maine Humor by Tim Sample
C. Clocking Generator
Speed:
E. Animal Warning Whistles:
"These are a must in Maine" ( 7 bucks and 5
min.)
F. Radiator/Transmission Cooler
Overheating going up that steep
hill?
Pictures are here:
1. got a blue 3 gal. water jug at Wal-Mart (about
4 bucks).
2. got 3 pieces of rigid plastic pipe 24"long by
3/8" o.d.+/-, (used under sinks) and about 2 ft.
of clear flexible tubing that fits over pipe,and
a plug for the end.
3. Drilled small holes in rigid pipe so the water
will spray.
4. Buy a 120 lb. +/- airpump to pump air into 3
gallon water jug. This will also be used to keep
your airbags inflated to the proper
pressure.
5. Buy a steel tire valve and drill a hole in the
waterjug near the fill cap, then insert the valve
and tighten.
6. Buy 2 12volt spring loaded, return to off
switches.(Radio Shack 275-711@ $2.29each) One for
under the hood near the airpump and the other
close to the driver. I put mine on the doors
armrest next to the I.C.C. switch.
7. IMPORTANT: don't forget to fuse the circuit
near your fuse panel.
8. A link to your power requirements is in All
the Power . . . Anytime . . . All the Time . . .
Ample Power!
9. COOL THOSE EXHAUST
HEADERS
14. Family Motorcoach Assoc. Magazine
15.
Motor Home Magazine
16.
Trailer Life Magazine
17.
Downeast Magazine
18.
Yankee Magazine
Maine Tourism Information Centers
20. The Internet Camping Directory for the
21.The Downeast Guide
23. Wanna Send Stephen King Get Well Note: ??
24, Maines Office of Tourism
25, Maines Office of Tourism Newest Links
26.Here are some GREAT sites
to feast your eyes,taster,and
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28.And many more providing I have time.
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