Winter plans

We went to Maine for 5 days in September in between doctor visits.  Boy, I sure hope we can get to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in December.  We know even with our tiny rig we can live easily in the beautiful Sonoran desert.  It has a great VIP campground.  See below.


The Sonora building houses laundry, bathrooms ,freezers, dining/game room &
 covered patio with grill

The only campfire ring in the whole park is in the VIP campground

Acadia NP and Cobscook Bay, Maine

We traveled to Maine to see the new addition to Acadia and hopefully meet Linda and Howard from RV Dreams.com who are volunteering there.  They held a boondocking rally in AZ several years ago which we attended.  We met them in Acadia and we met a ranger we knew and worked with from Organ Pipe Cactus NM, AZ.  Sardius is a Texan who worked in ORPI the 2 years we were volunteering there.  What a surprise to meet a westerner ranger this far east!!  So 3 people in one day in another national park whom we just bumped into with no meeting plan.  It is amazing how small this world is!!

 

We went to Cadillac Mountain & the very top was soooo busy for a mid week September day.
  We were told the mountain road was closed for 3 hours just before we traveled it. 



Yup, it looks like the Maine coast!

I wanted to visit the new Schoodic Woods Campground on the Schoodic Peninsula which has been opened just a year. (Sorry, no pix!)  The national park campground is fantastic.  It does not have showers but the roads are paved, the sites are level gravel, private and beautiful.  There is a walk-in tent area, a section for small RV's or tents with electricity and great bathrooms and a section for large RV's with electricity and water at each site.  It is very well planned with a dump station also. As always we just arrived and got a site midweek. We never make reservations. On the weekend we were not so lucky so we headed home stopping at a Walmart on the 8 hour travel home.  We also stopped at a business called Humble Abodes (we're beekeepers) which makes wooden ware for hives.  It being Maine we ordered and paid for the frames during the week heading to Acadia and on the way back on the weekend when they were closed, we picked up our purchase that was left out for us.  Where else could you do this?
  Love Maine & Humble Abodes!!!

We went to Campobello Island, New Brunswick, to see FDR's summer home, which  is an international historic site.  It was an easy over the border trip at Lubec, ME.   We stayed at Cobscook Bay State Park that has lots of beauty but no amenities and we watched the huge tides from our private site.  I even walked the dog in the AM in my PJ's because it was such a quiet place.  We did not see another person the whole time we were there.  The tides were quite high going from mud flats to very deep pools of ocean.  Lubec is at the start of the Bay of Fundy.  Beautiful place!!!!!