New England Trip 2010 (Day 2 – July 18)

Somewhere near White Plains, NY – Salisbury, MA
Well, we woke up around 7:30 – a whole three hours of sleep! We didn’t want to stay at the park-n-ride too long. We went to the nearest Starbucks… not for breakfast, but to wash up and use their wifi (still trying to figure out why a light would just stay on!). Then we went out to the parking lot and had breakfast in Sandy! :)

Our first stop was in Concord and Lexington, MA. I usually like to include some historical adventures on our trips. I love the history and I use the pictures and what I learn to make my teaching more interesting! It was pretty cool. We saw the Old North Bridge where the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired to begin the Revolutionary War. We also looked at the battlefield and saw a presentation on how the war started (Paul Revere and the minutemen information). Before we toured the battlefield, I was expecting something like Gettysburg, but it’s much more low key. Still interesting. We got a pineapple chicken curry wrap for lunch at the Main Streets Market and Café – they also had some amazing looking pastries and desserts, but we were good and just had the wrap.

Our next stop was Salisbury, MA. We found a campground called Black Bear Campground. This would be our first night at a campsite sleeping in Sandy! We found the site they assigned us to which was between two RVs.
Because we wanted to use electric, they put us in the RV area of the campground. We checked out our site, but then needed some food, so we headed to Salisbury Beach. Let’s just say we weren’t impressed! Imagine Ocean City, Maryland, boardwalk all condensed into about two blocks. Yea, massive amounts of interesting people and glowing neon. Not our kind of beach town! :( We decided to hightail it out of there except got caught in a line of traffic leaving the beach (Sunday night). Oh no, flashbacks to the night before…. We can’t do this to Sandy again! We find a little shortcut road that some people are taking. It does dump us back out into the traffic, but the end is in sight, so we tough it out and so does Sandy. (Did I mention that we haven’t used the A/C all day today? Sandy definitely likes fresh air better!)

We drive south to an area called Newburyport, MA. This was a very cool harbor town, but it was Sunday night so all the shops were closed. There were restaurants open, but we weren’t really in any condition to eat in a nice restaurant! We decided to definitely put this town on our itinerary for another time and headed back to the campground.

We had bought hot dogs and marshmallows with intentions of having a campfire some night. Looks like this was it! We were pretty exhausted but Doug managed to start the fire while I got all the stuff ready. It was dark by now, but we finally got a bite to eat. Then it was off to take a shower – first one of our trip – I know, pretty gross!

We got Sandy ready for a much needed full night of sleep. Doug put the top up for some extra breezes. We have screens for both of the side windows, so it’s pretty comfortable. We got a screen for the back, but we have to put the snaps on ourselves, so we’ll have to save that for the next trip. We sleep on the lower bed, which is very comfortable. After reading the Samba, we bought memory foam to put on top of the seat before putting down the sheets. As soon as our heads hit the pillows, we are out! Good night!