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SeanKidd
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Registered: June 2012
Location: Northern Neck Virginia
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We left Thursday for Girl Scout Beach Jam, Wildwood, NJ. This weekend Boy and Girl Scouts set up a tent city on the beach and camp all weekend. Since our girls have "been there done that" wind, sand and the noise of 1000 tents blowing in the wind is not that fun, our troop headed to Cape May and stayed at the Beachcomber. This is a really nice campground and only a short drive to historic Cape May and Wildwood. Thursday night Thunder storms delayed our mini tent city, we had three consecutive sites, our GMC and a pop-up on the ends and 5 tents on the center site. We had 7 girls and 5 adults wait out the storms in the GMC for an hour or so, snacks, drinks and Big Bang Theory episodes kept them busy. Friday morning the girls took surfing lessons in Ocean City, that evening we went on a dolphin watch. Boardwalk on Saturday was busy, it happened to also be the fireman's convention weekend. Took some time away from the boardwalk to attend the flag ceremony at Sunset Beach, this ceremony is quite moving, most of the flags flown are the casket flags of Veterans, a brief biography of the Veteran is read, the national anthem is played, then just as the sun is setting, Taps is played and the flag lowered and retired in a proper ceremony. There is a two year waiting list for loved ones ceremony.
Back to the boardwalk for fun and games. A little chilly, but lots of fun.
Drive home took twice as long with all the traffic, at one point we had only travelled 46 miles in 2 hours, 72 degrees, no problem. Next stop, Lakota Wolf Preserve!
The only problem I encountered was during my return trip preflight, upon draining my air compressor water separator, I over tightened the drain and broke it. Had to remove the separator and connect the flex line right to the reservoir. 5 minutes, I was aired up and ready to go. BTW, love my macerator!
Averaged 8.3 MPG on the way down, 60ish MPH, minor traffic,190 miles total one way... I haven't refilled yet, but I'm sure the traffic killed my return trip average.
Sean and Stephanie
73 Ex-CanyonLands 26' #317 "Oliver"
Hubler 1-Ton, Quad-Bags, Rear Disc, Reaction Arms, P.Huber TBs, 3.70:1 LSD Honda 6500 inverter gen.
Colonial Travelers
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