Going Back Up North

While in Reedsville we met up with some friends in Washington DC to tour the Clipper Ships that had stopped there for a few days. A group of these boats race around the world and people can sign up for different legs of the trip. It would be a lot of fun.

Next we returned to Solomons for a stop and met some more friends from Urbanna also going north. While there we decided to test the generator since it hadn’t been used in a while. After the smog and thick horrible gases cleared the air we decided that there was something very wrong with the exhaust system, Turns out the exhaust gasket was quite worn out and needed replacing. But it’s such an old model that we had to have someone hand cut a new one. Now the generator doesn’t gas us out any more.

Also the alternating current inverter batteries had died so we had to get new batteries. This meant moving the old DC batteries to the AC battery spot and putting the new batteries in the house bank (DC) spot

John had purchased a table created by one of his favorite artists. It was in Philadelphia and the shipping to Texas was not inexpensive so we drove up from Solomons to there to pick it up. And of course while in Philadelphia we had to do some sight seeing.