We are back on our adventure after two weeks in California. We are happy to report that, while we were gone, the rv repair facility received the parts for our air conditioner. It took them only a few hours to make the repair!
Our riverfront campsite:

Spent a day at Lake placid, site of the 1932 and 1980 Olympics. First stop was the bobsled run. You can actually take a run down the 1932 cement track with a person who steers and a brakeman. We didn’t do it because it was very expensive, very fast and so not good for someone wearing a cast. We did get to walk down the track that the athletes train on during the winter.

When the pros take this curve they are actually over the Lake Placid sign:

Ski jump:

Gondola ride to the top of Whiteface:

Lake Placid:

Love all the roadside stands selling firewood or veggies. It’s all on the honor system. Load your wood and put the money in the box:

Another fun thing to do on a Saturday morning is to stop at garage sales. Why can’t we strap this to the top of the car?

And our best purchase. $1 for tin snips that will be used in a few weeks to cut off a cast!

Here’s a video of some family fun we had in California. Video credit goes to Tiffany Lake.

Now back in Vermont to continue the adventure.

We left Maine and headed to New Hampshire on Lake Winipisakee for several days. Set up camp and then turned on the air conditioning because we were camped in the sun and it was very, very hot and humid. It didn’t sound right, then boom and no air! John is very handy but not fixable by him. Major air conditioning fail. It was a pretty rural area so we packed up and got the heck (or hell cuz that’s what it felt like) out of there. Drove three hours to our next destination in Burlington, Vermont which was further north (translation: cooler) and more populated. Hence, gotta go with the flow. Rv repair is hopefully ordering parts to fix. We are flying home to Cali for two weeks so the plan is we will take it in for the repairs when we get back, assuming they have received the parts. I have no pics of our travels through New Hampshire. But Vermont has been delightful:

And then Lake Champlain!

I’ve been to a lot of garage sales but never seen a milking machine. Don’t think I need one.

We can see Canada:

It was disappointing that we didn’t see more of New Hampshire but so grateful it was just our trailer air and not an issue with our car!
So excited to see our kids, grandkids and friends in California!

We aren’t spending too much time in Maine due to several factors. We had previously been to Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor (pronounced Bah Hahbah) so didn’t feel the need to go that far north. Secondly, it is very expensive to stay here. There aren’t any state parks along the coast with camping and almost all the rv parks are between $60 and $80 per night. I finally found one for $45/night but it’s less than desirable. Pics to follow. Finally, parking is ridiculous. More to follow on that. But the scenery is so beautiful.

Here’s our campground. There’s only one other person here who is traveling. The other 5 campers live here full time and their trailers look like they haven’t been moved in years. We also have our share of abandoned vehicles. But the old guy that owns it is so nice, we have full hookups, great wifi and very clean washers and dryers. Perfect!



Many of these pictures were taken either from a moving car or when John pulled off the road and I jumped out to snap a pic. Why?

Almost all of the parking anywhere near the coast was for residents only. We couldn’t even pay for parking. We did find one small lot outside of kennybunkport but when we pulled in it was so full that the only way to get out was to back all the way out. As we backed out, a cop drove in and gave us the major stink eye! When we were in DC I had commented to someone in the campground how kind and friendly people had been on our trip. That person told us not to expect that in New England. I didn’t believe it but they were right! No eye contact, not even friendly shop keepers. The parking situation is unbelievable. We don’t mind paying for parking but when it’s only available for residents….well we get the message.
Toes in the Atlantic. It was 92 degrees and humid!

We’ve been staying just north of Boston in Salem, ma. We had planned to take the train in to Boston one day but, like NYC, another heat wave hit and we decided not to go there. Not a huge loss since we’ve been there before.

We are staying at a marina/rv park. Here’s a few pics:

Nice, right? Well, this is a pic of where our trailer was actually parked. That’s us back in the corner.

The worst thing about this campground was when I woke up at 4:00am to the sound of someone trying to open the door to our trailer!!! We looked out and they were gone but noticed someone walking with a flashlight around some of the other campers’ vehicles. Then they came and tried to open our car door. And then they opened one of our outdoor cubbies right under the window where I was watching from (going to make sure they are all locked from now on). I yelled at them and banged on the window and the person ran off. We called the police but they didn’t find the person. The next morning the campground manager said they found a group of riffraff from town still here in the campground still so wasted that they didn’t know where they were. Clearly drug users who were looking to steal. But who tries to get into someone’s rv in the middle of the night when clearly there are people inside? Crazy!
Now back to more pleasant things! Gloucester and the surrounding area. Gloucester is the oldest fishing village in America and where The Perfect Storm was filmed.
These bad boys were taken right from a tank and thrown in the pot right before our eyes. Can’t get fresher than that.

Massachusetts is beautiful but the parking situation was very frustrating. All the beaches and many places in the towns only have parking for residents. Not very tourist friendly at all! So on to Maine. Let’s see if they like us more than their neighbor to the south.