ME, NH, VT, NY

Well we have finally reached my Mom's house in New York.

We stayed in Bangor, Maine for a couple of nights because we had to visit the Blue Knights International offices for some business (yes, we paid homage to Mother Ship) then took off for our trip south.

We traveled from ME to New Hampshire and met up with an ex-Riverside PD that wanted to have his picture taken for the Riverside PD web page that was started because of Karl's travels.  Had a great visit and a wondreful meal with Dave and Wendy Barrett.  He is now the head of the Marine Division of the Lake Winnepisacke region.  What a job - on the water all summer long.

As we travelled south we noticed that the colors are getting a little less now.  A lot less red and more golds and yellows.  As we travelled from Concord, NH to the I-90 New York Thruway the roads took us through lots of small towns.  Did you know that in New England, during the end of the season, they have lots of flea markets, car washes, bake sales and roadside chicken bbq's?  Well they do.  It would have taken us about 7.5 hours to drive, but with all of the small towns having things on Main street the trip ended up being 9.5 hours.  We arrived at the Elks Club for the night around 8pm then ran over to Mom's to pick up our month's worth of mail.  Today I took Karl and Mom for a ride to a very nice state park, Letchworth State Park, to see the colors there.  As we arrived closer to the park we noticed that the traffic was getting worse and worse.  It took us almost an hour to go 2 miles.  When we finally got into the park we found out that there was a HUGE crafts sale going on at the same time.  So there was Karl, my Mom and me with about 100,000 of our closest friends. 

After we finished with the park we moved the MH to the driveway of Mom's house for the next two nights.  We do make quite a sight for the neighbors.  On Tuesday we take off for our friend's house in Sommerset, NJ for a few nights.