Maine Jeep Trip

Serbonze

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Last week I flew to Maine for a two day celebratory Jeep weekend. This trip got me experience on terrain that we don't have in Florida (mountains, boulders, gravel wash-outs, etc) and with a different Jeep (his is manual with an Atlas transfer case and lockers vs my auto with open diffs).


Prepping at the house.
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It took awhile to get comfortable with the manual transmission and separate controls for front and rear diffs.
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Bath shipyards had two LCSs.
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Jeep graveyard. Everyone met at this guy's property.
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I thought this rig was a bit dangerous with no rollover protection.
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I was in love with this rig.
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One of the pictures of us.
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The climb to the top of this mountain was the most difficult trail that I've ever encountered, and well worth the effort. Honestly, it was exilerating and eye opening to see what these rigs can do. This is where we stopped for lunch.
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Nice trip and nice pic's. I love Maine, it's a great place to wander around especially along the coast. And you cannot beat the roadside Lobster rolls.
 
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Last time we were up there we stopped at an out of the way Lobster Warf that served the public on the roof at picnic tables. A 5lb steamed lobster with corn on the cob was $15.
 
TJ4Jim said:
Last time we were up there we stopped at an out of the way Lobster Warf that served the public on the roof at picnic tables. A 5lb steamed lobster with corn on the cob was $15.
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We really need to get back up there. I seriously need a lobster fix. Try the factory outlet stores in Freeport. LLBean has a 4 story store that is open 24 hours a day. Seriously!
 
Serbonze said:
Last week I flew to Maine for a two day celebratory Jeep weekend. This trip got me experience on terrain that we don't have in Florida (mountains, boulders, gravel wash-outs, etc) and with a different Jeep (his is manual with an Atlas transfer case and lockers vs my auto with open diffs).


Prepping at the house.
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It took awhile to get comfortable with the manual transmission and separate controls for front and rear diffs.
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Bath shipyards had two LCSs.
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Jeep graveyard. Everyone met at this guy's property.View attachment 5725 View attachment 5726


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I thought this rig was a bit dangerous with no rollover protection.
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I was in love with this rig.
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One of the pictures of us.
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The climb to the top of this mountain was the most difficult trail that I've ever encountered, and well worth the effort. Honestly, it was exilerating and eye opening to see what these rigs can do. This is where we stopped for lunch.
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Got an address for the jeep graveyard. I saw some things that I gotta have!!!!
 
Two year old bump lol!!

I’m actually in the planning stages of going out there in August again. I tried last year but got stuck in the Philadelphia airport and missed the entire trip.
 
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The annual club ride is in Bethel. That ride two years ago was to celebrate my father's successful completion of chemotherapy. It was a tough two days since he was very tired, but it did benefit me though because I drove almost the entire trip and got to experience a lot of new (to me) terrain.

Last year was a cluster. I was scheduled to fly up two days early to spend some time with my mom before the Jeep trip. I got to Philly, and my connecting flight was delayed, then delayed some more, and then finally cancelled at 10:30pm. There were no seats on any airline for two days, so I ended up spending the night in Philly and flying back home to Florida the next morning.

Portland is just about fifteen minutes from their house, but with the travel issues that I've had getting up there I've decided that if I can I'm going to start flying direct into Manchester even though it's an hour and a half away.
 
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I am actually heading to Maine tomorrow for the first time....unfortunately not in my TJ. We are meeting up with my parents in Booth Bay Harbor while they are touring the area.
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Funny. I'm headed up to Maine tomorrow from Boston. Two day project in Camden.
 
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