START: Hanscomb Air Reserve Base Fam Camp, Massachusetts
END: Winding River Campground, Exeter, NH
Miles traveled:
Travel time: 1400-1500
Today’s plan is to head into Boston to see some of what we couldn’t yesterday, then come back and pack up and backtrack about an hour into New Hampshire.
We checked out the USS Constitution, which has a mueum plus the ship itself, which is an active duty ship. It's an actual active duty assignment for sailors, and in one of the pictures below you can see a couple of them (well, their legs anyways) as they are preparing to unfurl one of the sails. They actually take the ship out once a year, fire the cannons and everything. That would be pretty cool to see. As it was, the ship was a really cool thing to walk around on and look at. Thinking about what life was life for the sailors of this vessel hundreds of years ago, and the role it played in maintaining our freedom - it's just a neat experience, and if you haven't been, you should definitely try to go and check it out at least once in your life.
Went ahead and did a load of laundry before we left in the morning. We hadn’t done any laundry since leaving Wright-Patt and our laundry bags were full. We did 4 loads (tiny washers, had to split my two loads into 4) the day we got here, which kept me up a bit late folding everything. I decided I didn’t want to have that much laundry at once again so went ahead and did a load of everything that was dirty. I’m just accepting that laundry when you’re living on the road will often mean mixing your towels and workout gear and regular clothes. I can’t sort everything into different loads unless I want to dump lots of quarters into machines to only wash, say 4 kitchen towels. Not worth it. I generally split our laundry into two types of loads: performance wear and regular stuff. I use different soaps for those, so that’s why I split it that way. We purposely bought mostly performance-type clothing for our time in Florida - think moisture wicking, quick-drying, etc. So we all have shorts and shirts in this category, it’s not just my workout gear.
The campground we are staying at tonight is a private one, large and expensive. It’s $65 for one night with water and electric. I remember having trouble finding a place in NH during this timeframe, so that’s why we’re stuck with a place like this. There’s a pool (which looked a bit dingy when we were passing it by on the way in) and a large playground and several loops with campsites, and it’s clear that many people live here year round, given the permanent structures attached to their trailers - decks and gazebos and patios and such. So far though, it seems pretty quiet. We’ll see what it’s like at night.
