Monthly Archives: May 2011

Mount Desert Island Round 2 :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

Bass Harbor Head Light in sepia
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0savesSave Since we were awake until 4am this morning (Friday), we slept in until early afternoon, and after doing a bit of work decided that we would drive a bit more around the other half of Mount Desert Island. There was a little sunshine and we hoped to see a lot of little harbors filled […]

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A Mundane Thursday :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

Where's Waldo? I mean, Chase?
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0savesSave Well there is not a lot to say about today. We both woke up this morning with headaches and so we went back to sleep and finally dragged out of bed around 1pm. One thing about full-time RVing is that we don’t have our own laundry facilities. As a result, we typically wait until […]

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A Trip to Machias :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

Gouldsboro harbor panorama
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0savesSave Today, Candy and I hit the road again to take a road trip to Machias, Maine, about an hour up the coast toward Canada. Candy actually has been here before when she interviewed for a position at University of Maine at Machias in 2006. As would make a lot of sense for this historic part of our […]

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Bar Harbor + MDI :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

Princess Cruise ship and a tall ship in the harbor
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0savesSave It has been a very wet and cold time here in Maine thus far. It is so much like Alaska was last summer. The fog finally cleared today (Tuesday) and we decided to drive into the nearest “big” city, Bangor. Bangor is roughly 45 minutes away. We are staying in Trenton, a small town […]

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Forgotten Mini-Adventure at Lake Jackson in Florala :: Rices’ Radical Sabbatical

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0savesSave We went out for a quick drive around Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island this evening, and realized that we had forgotten all about a quick stop at Lake Jackson in Florala, Alabama, last Monday. We stopped there for about a half hour to let Chase burn some carbon by jumping off the dock […]

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