June 19, 2009
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Our Annual Trek
My wife and I start our annual trek to Maine next Monday. We will drive to Asheville NC on monday, Chambersburg PA on Tuesday, Chesterfield NH on Wednesday - where we will stop and check out our grand-niece's new organic farm; and then on to DownEast Maine the following day.
It's been over 100 here North FL for the past few days - that is when there hasn't been a violent thundersquall - the hail cools things off.
We will be ready for some cooler weather, though it is strange to be packing all that cold weather clothing (We will be in Maine until the leaves fall - generally in mid-October).
In the past, I have had to spend a week or so off-line until I could get things set up - no mean feat out in the woods. I have used a satellite (awful reception) and a dialup (never able to get over 26k download); but since last summer I have had a G3 wireless cell modem (Verizon) which gives really good broadband response - close to that of my cable modem. It also can be used on the road (My computer is a 17" MacBook Pro), so I need not miss a day of all this deathless prose.
If anything exciting happens on the trip, I'll describe it in glowing detail.
Comments (3)
Have a good and safe trip. I envy you the cooler weather in Maine - we've been having 100 degree temps here (Oklahoma) which we usually don't get until after the 4th of July. Plus rain which keeps it nice and humid. Maybe I'll come visit
Annie
The only exciting (Disgusting) thing that happened on our trip is that our CR-V's air conditioning went out about halfway along. Fortunately we were just leaving MD nd had somewhat cooler weather ahead. We drove the rest of the way to ME the old-fashioned way - with the windows down and listening to the traffic noise
We have arrived to cool and rainy weather up here in DownEast country.
How wsa the trip?