Friday, August 14, 2015
We have another beautiful day in New Hampshire, before the rain hits this weekend.  We ventured out to the visitor center/chamber of commerce to get information on the things we like to do in this area.  Main Street is bumper to bumper and not our style at all, and we found a wonderful lady in the visitor center that showed us the bypass to get around all that traffic.  She was a godsend!  We also got maps of the scenic highway from Conway to Lincoln and we'll do that Monday.  It looks like rain this weekend, but they need it here, badly, and Jim can rest up his back.  We did a 3 mile easy hiking trail along the Saco River this afternoon, and found 5 caches along it, all of which were very difficult to find.  We ran into a woman, who lives nearby and she was quite interesting.  She came from Germany at the age of 19 and she seemed our age. She walks this trail every day, and sometimes twice a day.  In the winter, she snowshoes!  We introduced her to geo-caching and she was fascinated with it.  We also met a fellow geo-cacher before we started hiking the trail and she said she looked for the five caches on the trail and she didn't find any!  We felt pretty good that we did find all five and got our souvenir for New Hampshire.  Jim describes this campground as a beehive or an anthill.  Can you relate?  It is SO busy! We think things will slow down once the children go back to school, and it should also curtail all the traffic. We see the Midwest has heat and humidity, as does the southwest, and we are experiencing 77 degrees and not much humidity to speak of.  They do say it is going to get humid by next week.  The mountains are lovely here, and we can't wait to get out in them.