I Was Counting The Hours And Suddenly It Was Time

 Is there really a hitch-itch anxiety? I just wonder.

Anyway, I've been counting the hours. From the time we had moved into the trailer I was on 100,000 Volt. It was really getting cold outside, so the furnace ran almost uninterrupted. When it was bedtime we turned it down, but not off.

After a peaceful night (could be the last one for a while) I woke up at 6:30am ready to meet the day.

We cut the umbilical cord to the house, aka power cable, and hit the road at 8:10am. Customs officer took a deeper than normal look at our trailer then wishing us happy travels.

Good Bye House see ya in 5 months

First part of the road showed signs of ice but as soon as we went south on US-1 the road was dry.

Town of Lubec, ME

Mulholland Lighthouse this morning

After a short Wally-Mart stop in Ellsworth, we passed Bangor ME at around noon time. had a stop at the Maine welcome center. When I put the van into gear after the break  my gear shifter went limp. 

What?

The same thing had happened just a few weeks ago and the cable down to the tranny had been replaced. 

I called our mechanic and he asked me to crawl under the van to take a look at the cable connection. Well, all looked really good down there, so this time the problem was somewhere else. Now, the cable is made up of 2 parts. One from the top (shifter) down where it meets the other part which runs to the tranny. The connection between the two of them is made with a male and a female connector.

The mechanic said that the male end had probably slipped out of the female part. A 2. crawl under the van while Bea was operating the shifter at the dash while I put pressure on the tranny lever, brought the two cable ends together again. The problem is that both ends are shielded from view as they sit in a sort of housing. But after round about an hour of mounting frustration, we got the thing going again. For the rest of the day there were no more problems.

We made it almost to the MA border. We have stayed in this parking lot before. It belongs to the New Hampshire Liquor Outlet along the I-95. If a similar place like this would exist along a major highway in Norway it would cause a national outcry and the authorities would have shut it down before it would have been built. LOL.

As the evening went by, a Canadian Motor Coach turned up here. We watched 55 passengers storm into the Liquor store for cheap booze. It was laughable.

495kms

So what's the plan for tomorrow? 

We will circumvent The Big Apple and come down into the lower part of New Jersey where we will set up camp at a Wally-Mart for the night. By the way it got a whole lot warmer today (Thank God!)

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