By Barry Zander, Edited by Monique Zander, the Never-Bored RVers
With almost 500 campsites at Salisbury State Beach Reservation (“a state paaak,” as they say around here), we pictured Sunday morning at the dump station as being a line of rigs as long as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Our first strategy for avoiding the check-out-dumping-rush-hour was to wait until most campers departed by 11 a.m., but when we didn’t see any packing-up activity by neighbors at 7:30, we decided to make a run for it early. We were first in line at the dump and out of there 20 minutes later. Most campers were locals wanting to stretch out their weekend as long as possible.
There’s not much to report since the Cape Cod blog a few days ago, but since we’re moving inland into Vermont and New Hampshire, where we won’t have hookups, and since we’ve received some helpful comments from readers, I’ll send this out anyway.
Mussels await the return of high tide along the Merrimack River shoreline.
Friday, with our trailer parked at Salisbury, we drove a very few miles to tour the New Hampshire coast. Like most of the shoreline New England villages, the settings for homes are wonderful. Rhododendrons and wild roses are blooming, so it’s a colorful experience.
Two places we found interesting: Portsmouth Harbor and Hampton Beach. I’ll let two photos tell those stories.
With temperatures in the mid-90s last Friday, swarms of area residents went to Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, to soak up sun by the water. AND THAT WAS FRIDAY. We were told that it gets mobbed on the weekends.
A group of tourists boarded a “gundalow” (center) for a quick trip into the Piscataqua River at Portsmith, New Hampshire
Next, I chatted for a few minutes with Ken Knowles of Princeton, Mass., about his 1930 Ford
A 1930 Model A Sport Coupe makes it a get-away weekend at Salisbury State Beach Reservation.
Model A sport coupe. He bought it 50 years ago for $125, and other than putting in a motor after buying it, he’s done little to modernize it. Again, a photo:
That’s it for now. Stay cool.
From the “Never-Bored RVers,” We’ll see you on down the road.
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