We’re now past the halfway point of our summer trip, and I’m feeling a little bummed about it. FOREVER ROAD TRIP! Is what I seem to want. But this is certainly better than being desperate to get home when we still have three weeks to go, I suppose.
We’re in Burlington, Vermont at the moment, and I don’t think I even have an RVing Catastrophe to share this post. The new trailer is doing well (knock wood), with just a few minor annoying problems that will have to be dealt with when we get back (like how our bedroom door will only latch at every other campsite or so. I suspect this has more to do with how level we get the trailer, and less to do with the actual campsites. But it also has to do with the latch having been installed incorrectly). Oh! The van, after the tire issue, started having broken door handles all over the place. Specifically, the side door wouldn’t open from the inside, and the rear door wouldn’t open from the outside. Not terribly convenient. We found a place in Burlington to look at it, but, owing to a miscommunication of some sort, they fixed only the back door and not the side door, so I guess we’re just going to deal with the other door when we get home. Annoying, but not a catastrophe. Milo said the other day that he felt like fewer things were going wrong on this trip than usual, and I immediately told him to bite his tongue. I’m sure there are more catastrophes to come!
When we left off, we had finished up our time in Boston and headed to Cape Cod. This whole trip was built around our week on the Cape, as we were celebrating Dave’s parents’ 50th anniversary. We stayed at Atlantic Oaks in Eastham–our third time there:
The first couple of days were devoted to catching up with the cousins (the kids hadn’t seen each other in person since Ireland two years ago) and to the anniversary get together, with lots of friends and family.
They didn’t even plan to all wear blue!
Nana and Grandpa with their many grandsons:
Really, most of the week was about catching up with cousins. And the beach:
And then we had to say goodbye to the cousins, and we headed for New Hampshire. We’d never spent any time on New Hampshire’s small coast (only 18 miles!), so we decided to schedule a few nights at Wakeda Campground in Hampton Falls, a few minutes inland. We really liked the campground and our big site next to a field perfect for playing catch:
And then the heat set in. It was well into the 90s every day we were here, with heat indexes over 100. Fortunately, the AC in the trailer kept up well (much better than it would have in the toy hauler; the new one has a bigger AC in a smaller trailer). Unfortunately, we had all outside stuff planned for our stay, so we spent a few days going out in the mornings for as long as we could stand and then retreating to the cool trailer for the afternoons.
We went to the Seacoast Science Center one morning and then took a walk out from there to the breakwater. We love breakwaters! For walking on.
We split our visit to the Strawbery Banke museum in Portsmouth into two days so as to limit super hot outside time. It’s a living history museum with a collection of buildings that span different time periods from the history of the neighborhood:
We also fit in some mini golf at the campground:
And we went to Hampton Beach one night to walk around and see the sand sculptures from the contest that they’d had a few days before:
And then it was time to turn away from the coast and head for the mountains. And the cooler (and rainier) weather.
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