Yep, the Kim family was almost the inverse of this situation - all of the technology got them INTO the problem. I can't believe it was that long ago! I remember that one well bc my daughter was the same age as the baby, and it was too easy to imagine.

Yeah, and 'logging road' can be a relatively smooth, wide gravel road or it can be two ruts in the dirt, it is so varied. GPS used to send people to my hometown on the logging roads and they'd show up in rental cars terrified they just voided the contract by the route they took! ITS and some logging roads under snow would look the same, actally ITS might look MORE like a road because they are maintained.

I'm glad they at least had the sense to NOT leave the car, that would have been an absolute death sentence.

Ah yea, of course it was a guy who was a classmate of my sister back in the day. Good on him, though. This is the one time they’d have been found more quickly if they’d stayed on the ITS!

Have there been any more details on how they were found? My hope, in being familiar with that area, and knowing it was a good weekend for sleds and ice fishing, was that the back roads and ITS would be fairly busy and increase the odds of discovery.

I am familiar with the gaps in service, but I do think for people who typically travel in Topsham/Southern Maine, an airtag/ Life360/ FInd My service would have found them *before* they ended up at Nicatous. Maybe even before they ended up in Lincoln!

Springfield and Topsham are hours from each other. You might be confusing Topsham with Topsfield, which IS near Springfield. (For that matter, maybe they were confusing that, too.)

https://www.maine.gov/sos/bmv/registration/index.html Here's a more complete list.

From your link, "The general issue plate is the basic design for any plate. They are issued in a variety of classifications: Antique Auto, Bus, Combination, Commercial, Commercial Tractor, Disability, Disability Motor Home, Farm, Hire, Horseless Carriage, Motor Home, Special Equipment and Street Rod."

Chickadee is general issue.

Yes- especially in the 80s with acid rain worries.

We haven't turned on the oil yet this heating season.

We split this expense into two phases, and started by getting the inlet installed - that was about 500 bucks, but made it extremely easy to borrow a generator. After our first storm that we borrowed one, we invested in our own, and spent about 700. But man being able to just throw the switch and plug in outside was worth every penny (and makes the generator-lender more confident that you won’t wreck theirs, imo!) That was a few years ago, so prices have probably gone up, but if you were looking to do which one first I’d say inlet. ETA our generator can run the furnace or heat pumps, fridge, lights, etc. Probably not the DW, washer or dryer, but that isn’t as essential as the others! We have an induction range, not sure if would run that but I have a single burner and a great toaster oven that we’d use instead.

This recipe sounds even more complicated, basically you just smash the egg in the coffee can with the grounds and dump the whole thing into the kettle. It’s not done in separate stages.

It’s still made this way by fishing guides. The shell also helps temper the bitterness of the coffee.