Mt Washington, the oldest mountain car drive

 Our poor car, today we drove it to Mt Washington, 6000 + ft mountain drive in 8 miles.  Then we set down to see the view!!!!!

 The view!

Then later we went to the summit.  Only a short hike to the top!  58 degrees up there.  80 + in the valley.

North Conway , NH and covered bridge

 Today was our no car, no drive day. So we walked into town to check out the liquor prices and a covered bridge over the Saco River/

What a beautiful day.  Kids in tubes on the River and just beautiful weather.

Had steak and lobster for dinner at the campsite, a fire, some blueberry wine and the day was complete.

Conway, New Hampshire

 Here we are at the Beach Family Area.  Nice shaded sites on the Sago River.  This place had to be re-done after Hurricane Irene last year flooded the place.  Today we took off on an adventure to meet Pip and Cecile and get back the booze they stored for us while we went to Canada.   We saw a farmers market on the way and stopped in for fresh vegetables and bread.  UMM good

After the job was done we continued up to The Flume Gorge in Franconia Notch State Park.  The flume is a natural gorge at the base of Mt Liberty. The walls of Conway granite rise 70-90 ft and are 12-20 feet wide. The Flume was discovered by a 93 YO woman named Jess Guernsey when she found it accidently in 1808 .

The pool above is a deep basin in the Pemigewasset River.  It was formed at the end of the Ice Age 14,000 years ago by a silt laden stream flowing from a glacier.  The pool is 40 feet deep and 150 feet in diameter and is surrounded by 130 foot cliffs.

Moosehead Lake, Maine

 We arrived at Moosehead Lake to weather that is Maine like.  70's in daytime and 50's at night.  A boat trip in a pontoon boat was just the ticket on day one.

 The Dobbin's who are friends from Florida treated us great, firtst the boat ride and dinner at their home overlooking the lake, then the next day a hike to Moxie Falls.  Beautiful waterfall.

USA after over a month

Muellers and us crossed the border in Houghton,Maine. They must not see many rigs from California cause they wanted to ask them more questions and keep them just a wee bit longer. All is well and we both are across. First stop, Elks Club in Old Town, Maine. This is the town where those great canoe's are made. We arrive in 95 degree heat (remember in Canada it has been sweater and sweat shirt weather). We level the rigs with the help of boards under the wheels of both coaches, put out slides, plug in and.... NO ELECTRICITY! Remember 95 degrees and no ability to even run a fan! Both women veto staying there. So off we go putting everything back and leaving. First a Wal-mart stop in Bangor and a liqueur stop and off we go to Greenville. In retrospect good thing we did things early, cause we arrived in Greenville, Moosehead Family Campground at 7 pm.

Last day in Canada

We decided to stay in Fredericton, NB because it was closer to the border. So we Contacted the Elks Club there and stayed in their parking lot. Real nice people who even come to St Petersburg, Fl in the winter. Imagine that! Before we left we had to go to the meat market to buy some Donair meat and sauce. One last trip to Tim Horton's for coffee and another cinnamon roll and we are ready to cross over into the USA.

Trip to Corner Brook enroute to the Ferry

Here we are eating again! This time a Newfie special--Touton.  It is bread dough fryed in butter or in this case canola oil.  Then you pour molasses on top.  Actually it is good!

 Where have you ever seen a sign like this!!!!!There is supposedly 4 moose per square kilometer!  We have seen 7 moose.

Also another cool sign.  Not quite sure what makes a "tidy town"