Back In Maine!

My last idyllic picture of our campsite on my last post didn't portray the absolute fear and trepidation we experienced getting into that site.  We were truly terrified.  I hold no blame for this event with the campground, Lake Champagne in Randolph Center, VT.  For many of their pull through sites you drive down and across a wide open grassy field to pull in your site.  It has always made me quiver a bit previously, but we had never had a site as far down the row as we had this time.  And we hadn't unhooked the truck.  I noticed as we drew nearer our site there was quite an incline on the transition from the sort of road or path into our site, turned out it was way worse than we even thought.  I should have unhooked, backed out, and gone back around to back into our site instead, but...................I didn't, and scared ourselves silly.  We honestly thought there was a good chance we were going to roll over!

 

Perhaps in the picture it doesn't look all that bad, but inside for me listening to the creaking and cracking, and Jan outside just waiting for it to roll over, it wasn't pretty, and it was something we will NEVER do again.

Once in, the site was wonderful.

We had several road trips planned out of there.  One to Woodstock, VT and another to Manchester to go to the Orvis Outlet.  The weather was great, and we found an absolutely wonderful farmer's market in Woodstock, beautiful produce, locally grown meats, and fresh wonderful fish, what a find!

The product of our first visit to the market.

We had a wonderful ride and also took care of a few errands.  The next day we took off for Manchester and Orvis, had a lackluster lunch out and then to Orvis where Jan was able to find success in her quest.  Meanwhile I took a walk through the field separating the main Orvis store from the outlet, what a gorgeous day!

The main Orvis store

And the outlet

Then using the truck's GPS to get back and talking away and ignoring the GPS other than following it, until Jan noticed the mileage was increasing!!!  Turned out for some reason it had taken us way out of the way, but looking for a silver lining we noticed the way back now was back through Woodstock, and who knew, we could stop back at the farmer's market:-)  And we did!

Then we stopped in a new to us campground in St Johnsbury, VT for a couple nights, Moose River.  A beautiful, friendly place with wonderful owners that have been there for over 25 years and have done a fantastic job with the park.  It sits right on the Moose River, fairly small place, with incredibly long pull throughs that are so long you park offset from your neighbor which gives you an enormous site, awesome!

Then yesterday we made our way back to Maine!  We are staying at a KOA very near to friends' Doug and Nancy near Skowhegan.  We went over to their house and had a wonderful visit and an amazing lunch!  It was so nice to see them.

Our hosts

The lucky ones

We even got to see "Wicket":-)

So now we are off to Houlton, ME, way over on the eastern border of Maine with Canada, from there we will work our way back along the seacoast for another couple months.