Awake: 6:15am Temp 40 sleep 7+00 fog….then sunny
overnight @ Boothbay, VT.
Around 7:30am, we wave goodbye to G & G as they leave the campground. They
have around 500 miles to cover today thus the earlier departure. We have
slightly over 150 miles to our next campground thus we leave the Shore
Hills campground @ 9:30am. We back track our routing most of the way until
one mile north of the toll on I-95, then exit & take route 38 to route 101
leading to I-93 & to our next campground. These roads have been
delightfully smooth. Our cell phone comes alive on I-95; Kathy makes a
call to today’s destination & gets more detailed final directions. We
arrive @ the Hidden Valley RV & Golf Park campground in Derry, New
Hampshire @ 12:54pm.
Today’s travel: 3+24 time 161 miles 22 gal used 7.34 mpg 49.6 avg speed.
It’s a good thing Kathy had special instructions like: after the 1st speed
bump, take the first left turn, pull into the open field & park wherever
you want to but not on the golf course. Had we not known that, we would
have driven into a dead end busy golfing parking lot? This big rig parking
area is an open grass field with electric & water along the perimeter of
trees & hilly ground. Adjoining this area is a 9 hole course & within the
nearby area is also an 18 hole championship golf course. This works fine
for us as long as it doesn’t rain.
After parking & setting up, we walk through a section of the 9 hole golf
course to the RV office, pay our camping fee & then for exercise, walk the
rest of the hilly Hidden Valley campground with its other 279 sites. This
takes us over 1.5 hrs. This campground is also closing for the winter
starting tomorrow.
Kathy talks with Melissa, then Katrina via cell phone. Later she talks
with Nancy L. & leaves a message with Marge G.
5:30 dinner: Chicken rice casserole with mixed salad & toast.
Satellite movie: “Imitation of Life” with Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra
Dee, Dan O’Herlihy, Susan Kohner, etc. Turner is a career-driven actress;
Moore is the good-hearted black woman who shares her life & whose troubled
daughter (Kohner) passes for white. 1959. I had seen this movie in
Franklin Park, Illinois in 1959 & remember it was quite moving @ the time.
Young girls were literally running out of the theater crying during the
show. It was still a sad movie to watch & experience today.
Today’s travel temp= 68 Lights out: 11:02pm
Leave a comment