Not a fun job, but it must be done. Leon has started touching up the polish on "The Tube"

Leon was doing some additional inspection work in Scatter Bug and found what he called a rats nest of wiring that will need to be addressed asap. Looks messy, but ok to me but then I'm not the Master Electrician that he is.

The other picture is of one of the newly installed stabilizers in the down position. I'm wicked happy with these.

Over the past year I've been collecting promotional information and have purchased a few travel guides for the areas we will be visiting (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI). From what I've read PEI has some good cycling trails and one that really seems interesting to me is near the West Point Lighthouse. Per one of my travel guides this particular bike trail is a continuous cliff-edge ride along the ocean, going passed harbors and quaint villages. So I've decided this is one of the activities...

The re-riveting of Scatter Bug's belly pan is about 1/3 done. We ran out of 3/16 rivets so we could not complete the job this past weekend. Leon is picking up an additional 100 rivets or so and will finish up on this repair some night this week. Pictures show Leon drilling starting holes for the rivets and a section of the repaired belly pan.

All four stabilizers have been installed. Scatter Bug is now rock solid when they are down. BS (before stabilizers) you couldn't drop a dime...

It always seems to happen this way: Repair something and you find other issues that need to be addressed: Leon replaced one of the shocks on Scatter Bug (will be doing the second one today) and while he was at it took the time to inspect the under-belly. He discovered that most, if not all of the belly pan is loose, meaning it has separated from it's rivets. So today after the second shock is installed Leon and my father will re-rivet the belly pan and inspect the axle. I'm hoping we will not have...

In preparation for her long tow to and from the WBCCI Region One Rally being held in PEI this August we are doing some maintenance and upgrade work to our 1977 Argosy Minuet 6.0. Leon is:

• De-winterizing (we haven't taken her out yet this year)
• Hooking the refrigerator up to propane. It's a new unit that was never hooked up to gas, it was only run on electric. Electric only won't work for us as we like to boon dock.
• Installing new shocks.
• Repacking the wheel bearings
• Installing

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We had such a great time at the 2007 Balloon Rally with some of our NEU friends that we signed up early on for the 2008 Quechee VT Balloon Festival. The festival is held is a beautiful location with lots of local attractions to keep folks interested and busy. The good restaurants, shops and hiking in Quechee Gorge were some of the things that encouraged us to come back and attend the festival again. Plus we decided that we would finally spring for a hot air balloon ride! It's been on my life...