Maine to New Hampshire to Vermont to New York

July 10/11 2013. Not much to report we are in driving mode, covering about 500 miles in the last two days. Our first day we traveled 200+/- miles from Bar Harbor Maine west to Lancaster New Hampshire. 

We stayed in a large almost empty campground, the campground roads were paved but the ground was very saturated. The owner directed us to a site that was fairly solid ground. It rained all night and I was concerned about leaving in the morning but we didn’t have any trouble.

Day two we drove the rest of the way west across New Hampshire and then turned south on I-91 in Vermont. The interstate meanders thru mountains and valleys as it follows the Connecticut River. It is one of the most scenic turnpikes we’ve seen. At the bottom of Vermont we turned west again drove the width of Vermont and entered New York State. 

After a 300+/- mile run today we are overnighting in a small campground that boarders the Susquehanna River. It is the head waters of the same Susquehanna that flows thru Pennsylvania and Maryland before emptying in the Chesapeake Bay. Now that I think about it we were at the Chesapeake Bay terminus of this river earlier in this trip. It was in the June 11 blog posting, we walked out to the Turkey Point lighthouse where five rivers converge to form the head of the bay. The Susquehanna is one of those five; the other four rivers are The Elk, The Bohemia, The Sassafras, and The Northeast.

                                            Southern terminus of Susquehanna River at Turkey Point Maryland

The travel plan for the next few days is Pennsylvania tomorrow, stopping at the Hershey Thousand Trails Campground, Virginia the next day, overnighting near Staunton around the beginning of Skyline Drive and then Grindstone Campground in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area down in the Southwestern corner of Virginia.