North to New Hampshire
Tuesday, October 5th, the first day of our eagerly planned vacation to New Hampshire and Maine, didn't exactly dawn bright and sunny but more like overcast and blah but that's okay, a vacation is a vacation and I don't mind overcast; pouring rain is a completely different story but at least I don't get to that until later on in the trip! Jamie and I packed up the car, patted Tesla good-bye on the head and told him to behave for Andrew, then drove up to Canterbury to pick up my mother. By 9:45 we were on the road heading north and the traffic wasn't bad at all even through Lowell, Massachusetts which can be a real bugger - right, Lois ? Our route of travel took us right through Portsmouth, New Hampshire where I had the extreme pleasure of living for about two years way back in the early 1970's when my Dad was stationed at Pease Air Force Base. It was Dad's last duty station before he retired in 1974 and probably my very favorite next to Cannon Air Force Bas...