Since we visited here two years ago on our last cross-country trip we have talked about how much we enjoyed our time in Maine. We are pretty relaxed and Diane and Davin are entertaining us more than we expected but yesterday and today we pretty much took the day off. We got some chores done, I cooked some Mexican for them last night – pretty good despite the lack of choice on the Mexican sauces at the grocery store. Today we took a ride – the scenic route – to the local used book store, the Lobster Lane Book Shop. The place is amazing. The aisles are so narrow that they are mostly single-file. Every spot, including the floor and the rafters are packed with books. They are all in great condition, sorted into general subject categories ,and are almost all $2 or less each.

My chore this morning was to reconstruct my air dam/spoiler under the GMC’s radiator. Somewhere between Vermont state park and our arrival here my air dam/spoiler hit the ground and bent backwards. I remember hearing it hit a couple of times but, since the spoiler was mostly flexible 18-wheeler mudflap material I thought nothing of it. Once we parked at Diane and Davin’s I noticed the damage. At first I was just going to remove it until I could figure out a better design but then I realized that it is part of the seminar I am scheduled to do at the GMC Western States rally on our way home so I have to fix it.

Today Davin gave me some light 1 1/4″ galvanized angle iron and I cut and drilled it to fit the bottom of the radiator and the mudflap material from the old air dam. We went to the hardware store to get some new screws and nuts so I will work on installing it all tomorrow. Stay tuned – hopefully, I can remember to take photos.