Monday, August 24, 2015
I'm up early this morning, and thought I'd try the internet, and it seems to be working, but it's very slow.  Maybe I can crank something out on the blog, anyway, to update you a bit.  We have been going to the campground office for our hotspot, for the internet, so we can send and receive e-mails.  Our phones don't work here and we had to go 10 miles to find service for that.  We can get a call in but we get cut off most of the time.  We don't mind being in such a secluded area, as it has given us time to relax a bit.  We did take the bikes on the rails to trails path out of our campground yesterday and it is about 5.5 miles along the river, so it was very pleasant.  We will try to do that every day for some exercise, unless we strike off some place.  There isn't much here for sight-seeing, as southern VT is very rural and you can't travel too fast on their roads, as they are crooked and hilly.  We had quite the experience getting into our park.  When we checked in, she asked how heavy we are, and Jim told her that we are heavy, as we're full-timers, and then she asked how good of a driver he is.  She instructed us to go with our truck to check out our site and see if we can safely make it over the bridge!  When we came back and told her that we were leery about our weight, then she said, 'we have had bigger rigs back there than yours'.  So, with that vote of confidence, we came across.  I'll post a picture later of Jim driving back over, as I didn't think of it when we went in.  They have electric and water on the other side of the river, and if we had stayed on the office side, we would be dry camping.  Our sites are very large here, and it's a well maintained park, which is typical of any corps park that we have stayed in.  It looks like rain tomorrow, so we'll venture out today and see what we can find, or we'll go to Brattleboro and ride the bike path.  Jim can ride the bike fine, but his back is still bothering him, so there's no strenuous hiking that we are doing.  There is a lot of hiking in NH and VT.  The parking lot trail heads are always full.