May 24 to 28: Great North Woods of Maine Train Spotting Trip 2K19

Found these guys out there.

Irritated for sure but kept his cool and got through it, as usual the team always there to lend a hand
i didn't know the trucks eyes would bleed mud

Getting some awesome lobster in Portland on the way back down.

Chilling at the beach for a few.
We went from around 2500' down to sea level in 1 day, I've never done that before


Couple of guys needed to camp at my place, breakfast this morning.
Always happy to help.
Cheers you guys

 

It looks like you guys had fun! Glad to hear that. I wish I could have been there!

 

I forgot we went to the height of the land lookout haha. What a long weekend

 

I know I'll be up there more often

 

July 4th is on a Thursday....

 

I'm game for whatever

 

I just want to fishing at that dead end spot we found. Haha

 

Lessons learned:
I need new rear springs, it was really slowing me down. But I knew that going in.

I also need an intercom and radios linked into the headset. 12 hour days are too long with that noise.

Double the time I plan for stops in long transits. It was a great time, but I was very optimistic with how long it would take us to get between points.

 

Haha I'll take some blame for that

 

You were the instigator, but it was worth it, and made the trip allot more fun.

 

My attendance at all...

Fortunately everything seemed to work. i need to do a detailed inspection and make sure nothing broke.

 

Oh yeah! thanks for the hardware Rich! I think its stainless too Guess thats what a couple thousand miles of dirt roads will do a cheap home-fab light bar mount haha

 

I made it home

 

Still surprised that we missed you guys. Looks like a blast though. I will definitely be back there again, and I'd love to do a group run up there. We ran into the three guys with the the two FJs and the one 4Runner at the B-52 site on Saturday. They weren't sure where they were headed next, as they'd heard reports that roads north were "rough". This was also told to me by the woman at the general store in Kokadjo. The roads were honestly exactly what I thought they'd be, although we didn't run into some of the trouble that it sounds like a few guys did.

When I checked out at the Telos checkpoint on Sunday and I asked the woman if she'd seen the group, she said no but had heard you were coming. Looking at the pictures though it seems like most everyone didn't go through there though. Either way I'm thankful to the group for the idea and can't wait to go back up again.

 

These guys?

 

Haha glad folks enjoyed it. As always, there's so much to see and such little time.

BTW I tried your mud method on the way back to address the leaf pack. Once we passed the first camp we spend more time in water than on dirt for the remainder of the journey back. Certainly showed how much it rained the night before.

And what were the bump stops you had mentioned again? Do you have a link? I'll need to look into those.

Thanks for having us along for the trip. We had a good time.

 

Yep that’s them for sure!

 

I think I heard him mention Duro Bumps

 

Just wanted to thank you guys for letting my wife and I join up with you for a chunk of your adventure. It was a blast seeing all those Tacomas. We have a place not far from mooshead and could recommend a few other places for you all to check out if your back up sometime.
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