Most sites are long enough for any size rig but bring extra water hose because most sites share one centrally located spigot which could be fifty or more feet away from your site.
 THURSDAY |
TRAVEL DAY |
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SPOILER ALERT: There are still four more relatives we are planning a visit with when we arrive in New Hampshire next week.
 FRIDAY |
ERRANDS DAY |
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With the fun stuff out of the way it's time to get started on our errands list. The town of Plymouth has everything we need for party preparations, a Walmart for paper products and plastic utensils, a local grocery chain called Market Basket for food and drinks, a liquor store for a few essentials, a Taco Bell for lunch and the campground office sells firewood.
We are preparing for a farewell party!
 SATURDAY |
CAMPFIRE NIGHT |
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We're preparing for a final visit from Tricia's relatives who we invited to our campsite for dinner and dessert. For appetizers Tricia made some fresh salsa and guacamole, we also bought hummus and six different kinds of chips. For dinner we're keeping it simple, we cooked 16 Nathan's Hot Dogs on the BBQ (only one went uneaten) and offered chopped onion and dill relish along with the standard mustard and ketchup. Our guests brought some additional chips and delicious three bean and edamame bean salads.
For drinks we offered Simply brand Lemonade, Limeade and Watermelon juices (they were on sale). We had AriZona Half & Half (ice tea/lemonade) and a 2.5 gallon jug of spring water with a push/pull spout for dispensing, which surprisingly seemed to be the kids favorite beverage.
If I got the head count correct there were 6 children and 7 adults present at the party.
After dinner we all moved over to a community fire pit located just a few yards from our campsite and starting preparing to make everyone's favorite camping dessert, S'mores. The standard S'more is melted marshmallow and chocolate, sandwiched between two graham crackers. We of course wanted to make the dessert special so we offered the deluxe version, starting with special square and flat marshmallows (they fit on the square and flat graham crackers better, less messy). We had the standard Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar squares but also offered smaller sized Reese's Peanut Butter Cups if that was more to your liking. Now if you don't like how messy a S'more can get we also offered in addition to the standard Honey Graham Crackers a sometimes hard to find Chocolate Graham Cracker which can eliminate the melted chocolate portion of your dessert.
Everyone was given their own two foot long bamboo skewer to roast their very own marshmallow to just the right golden brown or black as it sometimes turned out, and then the adults were given the option of dunking their marshmallow into a cup filled with Kahlúa (a coffee-flavored liqueur from Mexico) or a cup filled with Baileys Irish Cream (an Irish whiskey and cream-based liqueur) or both as it somehow turned out. We learned about this adult version of the S'more from a camping friend years ago. Of course you can always skip the whole S'more portion of the procedure and just dunk your melted marshmallow into the liqueurs and enjoy.
It was after 9PM when the last of our guests departed and after a little cleanup Tricia came back to visit me at the campfire to finish up the night. It wasn't long before a younger couple came over to the fire with their own bag full of S'more making supplies and shared our fire. We asked if they would like to "adopt the fire" and thereby the duties of making sure it was properly extinguished at the end of the night. They happily accepted and we happily left and went to bed.
 SUNDAY |
RELAXATION DAY |
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While riding back through the campsites we spotted a bunch of Airstreams on the far side of the campground, they must have sneaked in when we weren't looking. We just had to go explore and found out there were actually eight of them. They come from all over New England and get together a few times a year to keep in touch with each other. We introduced ourselves as Tricia and Phil, the Tommy Bahama Airstream over in the opposite corner of the campground, and much to our surprise they were all ready aware of us being there.
There were tons of the usual questions, about where we were from and where we were going, did we like the Tommy Bahama decor and were we having any problems with our Airstream. We mentioned our water pump was no longer working and someone in the group easily diagnosed the issue and gave us a solution to try and fix it. Much to our delight it solved our problem and we will no longer have to carry water in one gallon jugs across the campground to use for washing dishes and flushing the toilet when there is no water hookup on our campsite. The solution couldn't have come at a better time because twelve of the next fifteen weeks we will have no water on our campsite as we travel through the northern parts of New England and the Midwest.
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