Down through New Hampshire
OK so lets get back to our trip to Boston! So, after the travel sick incident is left at the border, we drive down through Vermont for a while and then across and down New Hampshire. Our intention was to drive towards the lakes district in the White Mountains and stay there for a few nights. When we planned the trip we had no idea how gorgeous the scenery would be through the mountains - only that the lake area seemed really beautiful. Its a shame the weather was so bad because I'm sure we'd have taken some great views of the winding road curving betwen some massive mountains literally butted up against the road side. This is a place we'll certainly go back to visit as its a popular camping and skiing area. Anyway, the few pictures we do have here should give you a taste for the area.
So we drove down through the mountains, over to Woodstock (we'd thought about staying here - its such a legendary place after all - but "we" had bigger plans - read on!) and into the lake region for a well deserved break from travelling. It was a little trippy to see the towns of Bethlehem, Moscow, Berlin, Milan, Northumberland and Lancaster all within probably half an hours drive of one another! Our route took us down highway 93 (strangely enough this is the road thats right next to our new house now!) and then we cut across to our first stop - a huge lake called Lake Winnipesaukee (near the town of Gilford!) and to our lodge right by the lake in the town of Weirs Beach. Thats a funny place - on the one hand it looks like its in some sort of time warp back to what I can imagine was the US equivanent of the Great British Seaside Resort, with its miniature golfs and drive in movie theatres, but on the other hand I kinda like that, and by all accounts its a really busy tourist area in summer season.
Anyway - finally we arrived after what was to turn out to be the first of 6 weeks of major unplanned detours (for detours I guess I mean "getting hopelessly lost") due completely to google maps inability to direct you to the end of your own street. However - we found our place though a mixture of rough directions from some suspiciously redneck-esque locals and, well... luck! The lodge was massive and completely empty bar ourselves and one other family who we never saw but only heard. It sort of reminded me a little of the hotel Jack is the caretaker of in the Shining - a little cold or sterile feeling, empty long halls with lots of doorways leading off them. Fortunately Natalie hasn't seen that movie - I'm not sure we'd have stayed long otherwise :) But it was a nice place for us - we had a suite with living room, kitchen, huge bedroom, 2 TVs and DVD... pretty much everything. And a huge patio area leading to a shared lawn surrounded by trees (and chipmunks - so we discovered!) and overlooking the lake. Very tranquil and quiet, and of course Karina loved it... chasing chipmunks and bothering beavers because her main goal in life for those 2 days.To be continued.....
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