Maine and "home"

We have a lot of catching up to do since I last posted.

Tuesday we went to Cape Elizabeth and hung out watching the tide change while we waited for the Blue Angles to do a fly over. Never happened. We had a nice relaxing time while we waited.


Then we continued on to LL Bean stopping for lunch at Day's Seafood Take Out. Neat place right on US 1 a little south of Freeport. Our kind of place. Give your order at the window and wait for your number to pick up your food. Then find a picnic table and chow down. Fine dining.

Of course at Bean we checked out the outlet store first and then the main stores. We picked up a few items but not much.

The next morning we planned to go kayaking so we got our drinks, snacks and jumped in the truck. Key on, glow plug indicator off, key to start, drop in drive, move forward and WHAT NO POWER STEERING. Kill the engine and restart, like that will help NOT. Open hood and find the serpentine belt is off. What the hell, Oh

Ruined it's day. Slowed ours. Call Good Sam ERS, they tell me I'm still under warranty and kick me over to GM's ERS. I give them my tale of wooo. How far off the road are you they ask. I'm in a commercial campground. But how far off the road they ask. Less than a quarter mile I say. Can a wrecker get to you? Yes they have big Class A'a next to me. Yes but can a wrecker get to you? YES I say. Ok we will have them take you to dealer x. Ok. Call them and let them know you will be arriving and the nature of the problem. OK I say.

I call the dealer, we don't do warranty service on a GMC we are a chevy dealer. I tell them it isn't warranty service, the stupid mini bear, I mean chipmunk, just wanted to commit suicide and kicked the belt off. No can do they say we are Chevy and can't do warranty service on GMC since there is a GMC dealer close by. What is their number I ask. They give it to me. I call GMC ERS and tell them the tow will have to be to the GMC dealer. Can't do that they say, too far. What? They are in the same area. Let me check the lady say's. Ok we can do that.

In a few minutes GMC ERS calls back and lets me know it will be about 1.5 hours before we see the tow truck and don't believe the automated message. That is followed by an automated message that the tow will arrive in 30 minutes.

The tow operator arrives and loads us up. We jump in the cab and off we head. The tow truck is a Ford diesel. over 300K on the clock. It sounds like it needs a tow. Now power off the line. One injector isn't fireing. In for service tomorrow. If it lasts that long I think.

We make it to Bill Dodge and Matt the service specialist took very good care of us. $95 later we had a clean truck with the belt on and the departed critter disposed of. We didn't attend the services.

We did get to go kayaking in Scarbourogh Marsh.

There are more pictures here.
I'll post a few more days tomorrow.