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<\/a><\/p>\nWe’re taking an easy stop tonight, \u00a0 at the home of Bruce and Virginie, just a few miles from the site of the Vintage Trailer Jam. \u00a0 Bruce reports that here it has hardly rained, which is incredible. \u00a0 Some sort of magic barrier has divided the frequent rain showers to go around Saratoga Springs the past few weeks. \u00a0 But it’s not dry: we got a sun-shower when we arrived here, and at sunset the forest filled with fog.<\/p>\n
We haven’t run the water heater in weeks. \u00a0 This evening it refused to ignite, which is a problem we have had in the past when camping in the east in damp conditions. \u00a0 Something about it doesn’t like moisture. \u00a0 Around Christmas 2006 in St George Island FL<\/a> we discovered that half an hour of sunshine or a hair dryer would bring the water heater back to life. \u00a0 So we borrowed a hair dryer from Virginie and in just a couple of minutes the water heater was fine. \u00a0 I will<\/em> get a hot shower in the morning.<\/p>\n It was hard to say goodbye to our family today, but we’re going to have souvenirs of our driveway visit in Vermont for weeks. \u00a0 The spiders around there were innumerable. \u00a0 Everywhere I looked I found a spider or three, and often they had laid egg sacs too. \u00a0 They were on everything, and in every crevice. \u00a0 I cleared them out of the water heater, the wheel well, even the foam “pool noodle” we put on the awning arm. \u00a0 Such fun. \u00a0 We’re living in an insectarium.<\/p>\n