We’re now in Shelburne, New Hampshire, about 3 miles from Maine. The campground setting is nothing to speak of (White Birches), but it’s nice enough and the price is right and MOST importantly – – we have full hook-ups! We’re just parked in an open field. They have a beautiful, pine-treed/wooded section, but there are no facilities available in there. However, there’s a mountain right across the street that we can see from our kitchen and picnic tables – except on some early mornings when it’s completely covered in clouds!
I forgot to add Blaine’s “Mr. Fix-it” pictures to the last post. The GPS took us up this steep road and the back bottomed out, bending our rear rock guard around the Jeep tow bar. Once we got settled, he took it off, pounded it out as best he could and put it back on. Looks pretty good!
Before ……..
After.
Back to New Hampshire –
Having to remind ourselves that we’re not on vacation, our first day here was a “domestic god/goddess” day – cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, fixing a few things, washing windows, etc. Blaine told a couple of people on the phone that we were “just hanging out at the coach and resting”. HA! I don’t remember resting at all!
But Wednesday, June 28th was a great day! We took a long (about 7 hours) driving tour and stopped at quite a few bridges and waterfalls. The campground actually has a brochure marking where they all are. I don’t have much to add about them, so I think we’ll just publish pictures. They speak for themselves.
Cascade Falls
Water on it’s way to Glen Ellis Falls
Glen Ellis Falls – 64′
Walking back from Glen Ellis Falls. For those of you who get nervous, yes Blaine left the trail for this one! : )
Albany Bridge – built in 1858.
You can walk or drive across it. We walked.
This is the only bridge we took a picture of because the rest were way off the beaten path we were on.
I couldn’t resist, I had to check because people were actually swimming here. Yep! The water’s really cold!!
Lower Falls
Lunch View – at Lower Falls
Blaine on the large rock in front of me at our lunch view
Chillin’ without actually getting wet. : )
Rocky Gorge (North side of the bridge)
Rocky Gorge (South side of the bridge)
Falls Pond (in the Rocky Gorge area)
Sabbaday Falls
The legend of the name is that workers on the trail stopped for the Sabbath Day and left their tools at the water falls.
CL Graham Wangan Overlook
Hey, I don’t name these places . . . .
Same place
We’ve noticed some interesting things about this area:
- The McDonald’s has a sign out front that says – “Lobster is Back!” I looked it up, it’s a sandwich called a Lobster Roll and apparently costs about $9-10. It actually looks pretty good!
- The Super WalMart has a ‘storefront’ look to it – very homey looking. If we get back there, I’ll take a picture and put it in the next post!
- We stopped at a Home Depot (which also had the ‘homey’ storefront) and were greeted by a man giving away cupcakes! It was their 10 year anniversary and they had party hats, confetti, orange napkins and decorated cupcakes on a table at the entrance. As we were walking through the store, over the loud speakers came a woman singing, “Happy Birthday to us!” (yes, the whole song), and then we came across another employee making popcorn. When we left, they were setting up outside to grill hot dogs! Nothing like that in Akron, Ohio!
- Every park and every area we’ve been to in both New York and New Hampshire is VERY clean! There is no trash ANYwhere! Of course, they don’t have trashcans anywhere either . . . but still, how do they keep everything so clean??