The Full Time RV Lifesytle.

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I (Rich) think the full time rv lifestyle offers many opportunities to learn about a lot of different things and we can learn as much or as little as we want to. To keep it simple I like to break it up into 3 categories People, Places, and Things.

  1. People; among travelers there seem to be a willingness to share their ideas, travel stories, and personal experience. Traveling the Eastern part of the country and experiencing the willingness of the people I have met to share what life is like for them has giving me a more balanced view of what an American is, and what effect government has on different parts of the country. On a personal level it has giving me a better understanding of myself, my wife, and how important family and friends are.
  2. Places; The United States of America has so many beautiful places to see and experience but most of them can’t truly be appreciated in a matter of days. I noticed  early in my travels that geologically the country flows from one state to another and if not for the ” Welcome To” sign I wouldn’t know I just left one state and entered another. Landmarks, Histortic Sites, and National Park serve as a contrast between where we started as a Nation and where we are now. Example while traveling in Wyoming I kept seeing Historic markers for the Pony Express and it caused me to think about how many times I had been upset in the past that an important letter didn’t arrive in just three days from the other side of the country, when in fact, back in the day I could have waited weeks or month while that letter was delivered by horseback. I was standing at the Registry Rock in Wyoming where people migrating from the East to the West via the Oregon Trail wrote their names and the year they were traveling on the rock and continued on their journey. It was 90 degrees and it caused me to think about those people they didn’t have a truck with air conditioning, short pants, or even a thin t-shirt but they endured and some even died chasing their dreams. Today you can get anywhere in the country in a matter of hours, back in the day it took months maybe years to get across this country.
  3. Things; RV operation, trip planning, technology and anything else that doesn’t fit into the other 2 categories. Of the three technology is the most important for the modern day nomad. The internet can provide many answers to questions about RV operation, it can provide information about campgrounds or even routes to travel for trip planning, but as with most important things when you don’t have it you realize how much you relay on it. We recently had to make some upgrades to our technology to make sure we can communicate and plan when we need to. First we upgraded our GPS to a model that is specifically for RV’s.We can put in the dimensions of our RV and it will select routes that don’t have low bridge based on those dimensions, we can tell it to stay off toll roads, we can search fuel, stores, campgrounds, banks, truck stops, rest areas and the list goes on. We have only had it a couple of weeks so it’s a little early for a product review. Internet most of the time campgrounds have WiFi and if they don’t or its slow we use the hotspot on our cell phone. The campground we are currently staying at is in a no coverage area for our current cell phone carrier so we moved one of our phones to a different carrier which increased our data for the hotspots and gave us better cell coverage. Again this upgrade is too new to do a product review.

Acadia National Park, Maine

We went to Acadia National Park Visitors Center to get information about Hiking, and the must see attractions at the park. We drove the 27 mile loop around the park and what a beautiful place, its a stunning mix of forest and coastline. We went to the top of Cadillac Mountain which is the highest point on the North Atlantic Seaboard and between October and March you can view the Sunrise first in the United States. If you visit Acadia National Park in your RV be careful there are low bridges on the loop road.

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Pleasant Hill RV Park, Hermon, ME

We pulled in to Pleasant Hill RV Park and Campground on Saturday July 29. We’ve been taking care of setting the camp up and some of the chores that go along with traveling. This is home for a month or so, theres talk that the campground may need a couple to camp host until October but nothing firm yet.

 

 

Vermont

Vermont is a beautiful state to drive around. We drove around trying to find covered bridges and as we’re driving the paved road would end and we would find ourselves on a tree lined smooth dirt road it was like driving through a forest.

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Covered Bridges and Buildings

 

Joy Wah Chinese Restaurant.

Where are they now?

We left Western New York on Sunday the 23rd via the back roads what a beautiful drive. The road goes through small towns and endless farmland and you see the occasional Amish horse buggy. We stayed the night at a Walmart in Glenville New York and continued on the next day to Dummerston Vermont where we’ll lay over for 4 days to plan the trip to Maine. We would like to Workamp in Maine and stay until October but we are not having much luck finding work so Maine is a question mark. We went out exploring Vermont today what a beautiful place. Our first stop was the Robb Family Farm established in 1907 as a dairy farm and converted to Maple Syrup and Hay in 2011. Wow once you have farm fresh Maple Syrup you can’t go back to store bought. Very nice people nice tour, look them up online if your in South Eastern Vermont. Next we went to the cover bridge in Dummerston Vermont, built in the early 1800’s.

The bucket above is old school and the spike and tube is how its done today.

Niagara Falls.

This is our final day at Niagara Falls and we wanted to stay until night-time so we could see the falls illuminated and watch the fireworks. We also went on the Maid of the Mist Boat Tour to the base of the Horseshoe Falls and The Cave of the Winds tour at the base of the Bridal Falls. We would highly recommend doing these two things if you go to Niagara Falls USA.Maid of the Mist-1Maid of the Mist-1-2American Falls-1Cave of the Winds-1-4Cave of the Winds-1-3Niagara Falls-1Cave of the Winds-1-2Cave of the Winds-1American Falls-1-2Niagara Falls-1-2

Near the State Park Visitors Center they have the Great Lakes Garden.

More Niagara Falls.

The Culinary Institute of Niagara Falls has a self guided tour and within its building it has a fine dinning restaurant, a New York style deli, pastry shop, and wine tasting. We decided to eat lunch at the deli it was very good and affordable.Niagara Falls-1-3Niagara Falls-1-4

Hot Capicola melt with chips and pickle. Tasted better than picture looks.

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Aquarium of Niagara Falls.

This was not much of an aquarium and our first clue was it smelled like a fish market as soon as you open the door. The variety is poor, I’ve been fish stores that were more interesting.

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Niagara Falls.

Growing up I remember hearing about these Daredevils going over the falls in a barrel so when we were at the Visitors Center and the opportunity presented itself to go over the falls in a barrel we couldn’t resist.

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We also visited the Schoellkopf Power Station 3 Complex located at the Discovery Center. The Power Station was built between 1904 and 1924. In June of 1956 3/4’s of the station was destroyed by rockslides. One employee Richard Draper died in this event.

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You enter the station at the top and take an elevator to the bottom of the gorge.

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Four tunnels where the water from the generators exited the station.

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The view from the bottom of the gorge, to the left you can see part of the Horseshoe Falls.