BEANS, GREENS, AND PURLOINED LOBSTER
All RV trips begin with a plan. Maybe your planning is as detailed as the
The first time we stopped for fuel it dawned on me that either I would have to raise the limit on my credit card or hold down costs somewhere else. Right there, while watching my bank account disappear into the gas tank, the Beans and Greens tour was born. Let me immediately state that my wife chose not to participate, but then she had already made a great sacrifice for the trip by limiting herself to taking only a dozen pair of shoes.
Cracker Barrel is well known amongst RVers because they usually provide decent parking and tend to be located along major thoroughfares. They advertise Southern cooking in the south and home cooking elsewhere, but it is all the same. One inexpensive meal consists of a bowl of pinto beans, and a bowl of turnip greens along with cornbread. Why not, I reasoned, eat that meal whenever we stopped at Cracker Barrel?
True, the money saved by eating beans and greens would only
purchase a gallon of gas, but at $3.00 a gallon every little bit helps. Now this went on for several days since
Cracker Barrel goes as far north as
Our first objective was to tour New York City. We accomplished this by staying in an RV Park
in
Then there was the moose tour in Gorham,
Then it happened. The driver spotted a moose and we all piled out of the bus to see. Sure enough across a large pond there was a moose, minding its own business and no doubt wondering what the heck we were doing. Before the night was over we spotted seven more moose, mostly doing moose things. My wife was happy. I guess if you want to see a moose, this is the way to go. The information center at Gorham can provide you with details. You might consider making a reservation. We didn’t and it was only because a couple from Israel was kind enough to let their four year old son sit in a lap that I got on the bus at all.
From Gorham we traveled across
During one of our stops a local newspaper front page story
reminded me I was in
I-495 sweeps way around Boston, but it is on I-495 where you will find a number of RV Parks. A very nice KOA close to exit 6 will take you to the train station every morning and pick you up at night. It takes about an hour to ride in at a cost of $12 for a round trip, but once at South Station it is easy to catch one of the several trolley tours. For two days this was our means of seeing Boston.
We continued to flee the rain and finally enjoyed a sunny
day in a remarkable little town called Staunton,
Painting of George Washington in Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
Faneuil Hall
Fall in New Hampshire.