New Hampshire

Lots more mountains and trees. More moose signs (no moose). 
Maine information below.

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At a Walmart we stopped at, there were 5 campers parked together, a popup-camper parked between two of them set up, some with slides out, jacks down. One had their awning out and they were all standing underneath it. Guess they couldn’t get a camping spot together.



Some New Hampshire facts from netstate.com:

1. Agriculture: New Hampshire's top five agricultural products are greenhouse and nursery products, dairy products, apples, cattle and calves, and sweet corn. Dairy farming and dairy products contribute about 31% of the state's total agricultural receipts. Beef cattle and calves are important along with chicken eggs. Aquaculture and hog production make up a smaller part of the livestock products sector. Greenhouse and nursery products are the most important agricultural products for New Hampshire. Home and garden plants and Christmas trees are the most important items in this area. New Hampshire's most important field crop is hay, used mainly for cattle and horse feed. Maple syrup is an important farm product. Sweet corn and potatoes are the leading vegetable crops while apples are the leading fruit crop.

2. Manufacturing: New Hampshire's leading manufactured products are computer and electronic products. Telephone equipment, computer microchips, military communication systems are also manufactured. Fabricated metals manufacturing (ball bearings, machine tools) is the second-ranking manufacturing activity followed by machinery manufacture (printing, metalworking machinery, lens-making equipment, optical instruments).

3. Mining: Though many important minerals are scattered throughout the state, sand and gravel for roads and concrete are New Hampshire's leading mined products. Granite quarries provide building stones.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012:  We just checked into Beaver Hollow Campground at Ossipee, NH, another Passport America campground. Yup, we're back in New Hampshire already. As we've been searching campgrounds,  we're finding that a lot of them in the northern/eastern part of the country close October 15th. So, instead of going all the way up and back from Acadia National Park, which would be another 400 miles or so, we just decided to start heading back. The trees are really pretty; some red, yellow and still greens. Interesting some trees already dropping their leaves. Near Beaver Hollow is the White Mountain National Forest and Castle in the Clouds which we plan on going to; hopefully not raining.

Monday we went south of Wells, along the coastline, and found a beach area to walk on. There were some kids running in the water (don't know why they weren't in school), but the water was too cold for me to walk in in my opinion. We saw Nubble Lighthouse. It was free, but we couldn't go on the island itself where the lighthouse is. Got lots of pictures. It's a really pretty area. The huge rocks are amazing around here. Tour buses all over. Fort McClary, an old fort, was open, and it was free also. Kind of nice not being around tourist season for some things. We went to Kittery Trading Post, which is much like Cabela's but I think it is more into guns and hiking. Even though there is a lot of everything. It's two levels also like Cabela's, but doesn't have near as many animals.

Tuesday we went north up to South Portland and then back along the coastline. We saw Portland Head Light lighthouse at Fort Williams Park at Cape Elizabeth. Again, huge rocks. It was a fort, so there's still some blocks leftover from buildings. Everything was free again (nice!) Lots of tour buses again. We stopped at Scarborough at Len Libby Chocolatier. They have a life-sized moose made of chocolate.  That's probably the only moose we'll see! We stopped at Kennebunkport and walked around. We had been there back in 2007 with Dean and Valerie, and  remembered a lot of the area, and found the ship, Eleanor, that they had a ride in. Lots of road construction.

Friday, Sept. 28, 2012:  After leaving Cabela's and moving onward, we stayed at Bennington, VT Walmart one night and then on to New Hampshire. We've been at Saddleback Campground in Northwood, NH for this past week. Curt has been working on installing AirForce One braking system in the Jeep and RV, changing light covers outside, fixing leaks, etc. One of these days he'll get to actually just sit at a campground. Saddleback Campground accepts Passport America, so it's half price . There's electric and water; no sewer, but there is a dump station. So I didn't wash clothes this time, but we can dump the tanks and fill new water. There's free Wifi, so I spent a lot of time searching for places to go.

The trees were really pretty going through Vermont. The area we drove through was mostly hilly. As it leveled out toward New Hampshire, they were more green again. We'll see as we go through to Maine this weekend how that area is.

When we were at Bennington, I got some groceries at Walmart, but it was a small Walmart so they didn't have much. So on the same lot was a PriceChopper store. We were surprised to see live lobster swimming around to be picked. I took some pictures of the seafood, but wasn't able to get the squid as there were people standing by that one.

There were moose on the loose!