The Pinnacle has Landed in Wells, Maine

Wells. Maine.   Moody Beach Thousand Trails Park, site 199

Highs: 60's-high seventies  Lows: high fifties, low sixties

Internet: reasonably decent with ATT hotspots, T-Mobile Mi-fi is slow. 

After the worst Internet for two weeks back at Bar Harbor in the Narrows Too campground, and very weak ATT cell service,  it's a breath of fresh air to have a little faster internet with both our ATT hotspots and our T-Mobile unit. 

site 199

We had a smooth hitch up to leave and were anxious to get back to Wells, hoping for a front line spot out in the open. Even though it was midweek, a better time for checking into a campground before the weekenders make it in, the campground was completely full in the front-easy-to-get into, pull through section. Rats! Back we go to the back of the campground where it's heavily wooded and harder to turn around tight corners and maneuver around with a big rig.  Usually, Sparky will unhook one of the bikes and ride around looking for a good spot, and she prefers Eldy's approval before picking it for sure, but today the rigs were coming in so quickly behind us, she stayed in the truck and we went looking. A park ranger came up as we rounded the corner in the back row, and he says, "You might want to get out of your truck and walk around first to find a spot. We are pretty full. There was a guy in a fifth wheel in here recently and he hit a park worker's trailer and caused damage to it and his rig. 'Course he came in at night....." Eldy says to Sparky later, it's dangerous enough driving around in the DAYTIME trying to find a spot! But we did, and here we are for two weeks.....We managed to get a really nice spot with one of the few concrete pads in this section, a pull through to boot! The one problem we had was it had a bad slope which was hard to see with the gravel site so one tire was off the ground and the middle stabilizer jacks would not come down. As there was only one tire off the ground, we stabilized it with boards and chock blocks so it wouldn't budge. The site is very shady, so it's quite dark inside the rig on a cloudy day, but it's a lovely site and on hotter days, we will be cooler. No signs of any really hot days coming however. (Except for one day that was 84 degrees, says E.)

We are really looking forward to our two week stay even though it's our second time here this summer.....

So far we are just taking it easy. With the heavy traffic July 4th weekenders coming soon to the Wells/Ogunquit area to celebrate their weeklong vacations and congestion is picking up out on Highway 1, (the road that goes right past the campground), we are hanging close to our site most days for awhile, and catching up on little maintenance jobs on the rig. We do such things as clean the jacks underneath, (getting the road grease off of them), and lubricating them so they will continue to work smoothly, and screwing in loose screws that come loose as we bounce down the nation's highways. Sparky washed all the screens on the windows the other day. It is unreal how much road dust kicks up and clogs the window screens as the roads around the park are usually gravel and dusty. 

Sparky LOVES this campground. It's camping in the woods like we use to do years ago if you are in the back section. It's like camping in a parking lot if you are in the new, out-in-the-open no trees section. It's so nice to see lots of families who come in and do the whole camping thing like we used to do with our young families growing up. We love the grilling smells, the makeshift clotheslines hung between the trees, the kids having a blast, yelling and screaming with glee over different activities going on during the day, the smell of the pines....We love seeing how everybody camps. This looks a little precarious! The ladder to the tent goes from the TOP of the picnic table to the tent.

We love that you can spend the day at your site or go out and walk to the beach. It's not crowded most days. The water is about 61 degrees last time checked.

Footbridge Beach, Wells, Maine

On another day, a very windy one, Sparky heard branches up above the rig scraping the vent covers. She went and asked the park office if the park could trim them, and they said they are not allowed to climb a ladder any higher than 6 feet, but they'd send a guy out to look. Sparky says, well, can I trim them then? He says, we won't stop you, it's your rig. Sigh...Ok...So here comes the guy with one of those long pole saw/clippers. He says he can't get up high enough to trim the branches. He's not allowed. So Sparky says she will go up on the roof and trim them. But he had to promise not to laugh because she will not stand up on the roof, but scoot around on her butt. He says ok. Up she goes, he hands her the pole saw, and she trims the branches.  No photos, because Eldo and the guy were watching carefully to make sure she didn't slip and fall. No worries, all the sap on the roof made it super sticky!

Sasquatch on the bike trail mileage signs!

Other than that, beach walks, bike rides on the Eastern Trail and we've come to the end of the two weeks. Sparky didn't make it over to the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, but it's there as well. We've really enjoyed our shady site at Moody Beach even though it's back in the difficult-to-get-around woods section. It's a former annual site with a nice concrete pad so it's roomier than many.

Not much rain this two weeks, so not much crafting going on with Sparky. But she has made a BUNCH of 100% cotton dishcloths for her shop, JeanBeanGifts on Etsy. Here's one are of her favorites.

The other thing Sparky likes to make are ornaments, the fiddly, totally hand sewn ones. Here is the Ghost of Christmas Past from a series of several she will be making.

Next we head to Patton Pond in Ellsworth, Maine in two days. There is a huge pond there for kayaking, but no bike trails or hiking. That's ok, Sparky needs to slow down once in awhile. We will be there for a week, then back to Wells Moody Beach for our final last stay till Bar Harbor. We will be ending out our Maine stay for the summer with the Bar Harbor/Acadia National Park, another 5 day visit again. Living life to the fullest! Woo hoo!  Bye for now.....