The first two days of Sukkos (Monday and Tuesday) with congregation Ahavat Shalom in Ocean City, Maryland were great.  It was the first time we’ve spent a holiday with a Sefardi congregation.  Since everyone there except us were Israeli expats, the Rabbi delivered his sermon in Hebrew.  On the second day I walked down to the beach and walked the boardwalk for a bit. 

RV breakfasts are always fantastic:

The passenger side of the RV seemed to be sagging, and a peek underneath revealed that the rear passenger leaf spring had broken.  This is the same spring position that broke and had to be replaced on Day 366.  Back when that spring broke, I replaced the springs on both sides so the axle would be square to the trailer and therefore the tires would not wear poorly.  As I result, I had with us the unbroken leaf spring pulled off the driver’s side of the rear axle those few years ago.  I crawled under the RV and got to work:

Installing the new leaf spring:

While I was working, this Wheel bug wandered by:

The broken leaf spring:

The congregation used to be headed up by a Chabad rabbi, which explains why the synagogue was built to resemble 770:

After Shacharis and fixing the leaf spring, we relocated back to Assateague Island.  We had camping reservations at Assateague Island National Seashore, but we would have had to change sites in the middle of our stay, so we decided to try for the first time camping at Assateague State Park, which was much less crowded.  For a couple more dollars, we have use of bathhouses with toilets and nice showers, as opposed to just pit toilets in the NPS campground.

We set up our sukkah again:

We managed to squeeze everything onto our site:

Next we hit the beach:

We collected some shells:

Dead Horseshoe crabs:

I received permission from the state park to launch my PPG from the beach:

Launch of flight #112.  I’m doing a reverse launch due to strong wind:

Nice views upstairs:

Coming down to land:

This video contains my four flights on this trip:

I kited the wing to make sure it was clean before putting it away:

After dinner in the sukkah we had a campfire.  It’s warm here with 100% humidity, so the wood is damp and doesn’t burn very well: