While Voyageurs was a nice enough Provincial Park, it didn't have any hills for hiking and Ed is really itching to continue hiking.
I'm finding that although we both love the summer of traveling around the country, we are both getting home sick sooner each year. It's hard knowing there is just 2 weeks before we can get back in our own bed!
We decided to take our chances and head out to Covered Bridge campground on the Kankamangus Hwy near Conway, NH today. We have already reserved a spot starting on Friday. Our daughter Pam and her boys, Keleb, Logan and Rylan will join us for a week of vacation starting on Sunday. If we can get the same campsite when we arrive we will not have to take down and set up ever again this summer!
The day is a long one. Travel wasen't bad, though, with only a little construction. The Streets program had us doing smaller roads in Canada and entering the USA in New York at a really REMOTE entrance. We went thru Quebec Province and entered New York while using PR 203. I think the customs was at Covey Hill on Cannon Corners Road. It's open from 8 am till 4 pm! The guys there didn't look like they got a lot of visitors! They even said, "So what made you come thru this entrance?" We apparently were randomly picked for a more through search of our car and camper (probably because we were their only customers today!) but after chatting a few minutes and petting Monty, they did a cursory search of the camper through an outside door. They were particularly interested in my hard cover books....don't know why. But after a short while, they gave Monty some treats and we were off.
Our path took us through New York, then Vermont and then New Hampshire. We traveled on Rt 11 thru Mooers Fork, NY, and then onto familiar Rt 2. We probably could have made better time by ignoring the program and using the bigger Rt 89 or 91, though.
Once we got back into Massachusetts I could almost hear a sigh of relief from Ed. I know he feels like he's almost home!
Ed loves coming back to the White Mountains. It's where he's done his most hiking and he knows the trails by heart! He's happy to be here a few days early to get in some extra hiking time.
The site is nice and flat and plenty big enough. Monty even likes it!
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