Today, we drove through several states on our way back to my parent’s house in Upstate NY.
From Boston, we headed Northeast through New Hampshire and into Maine. Maine is very green and pretty. We found a seaport town (Kittery) to stop in for supplies and a bathroom break, and then headed back to New Hampshire.
We couldn’t see much of New Hampshire because we were on a two-lane road constantly surrounded by trees the whole time. Eventually, we found a town (yeah, civilization!) in the town of Keene just before the Vermont border. This little town had a Target and a Borders Books (that was closing) so we went to both. For once the Science Fiction section wasn’t picked clean at one of these closing bookstores so I got a couple of books.
Vermont was a little hillier, and so you could see more. It too was pretty and green. We ate lunch by a stream in the city of Bennington, near the NY border. Just before Bennington, we spotted a young moose that was crossing the road (we had seen moose crossing signs all morning but didn’t believe them). You don’t see that every day! In New York, we saw a lot of deer on the side of the road, and while we were parked on the side of the interstate for a while, two hunting dogs came up to our car from out of a nearby swamp – one of them very muddy. No owners were in sight. My window was down so the muddy dog came right up to me. Fortunately he was friendly, though he did bark a lot. Maybe he was just happy to see civilization. I hope those two don’t try to cross the interstate!
Before long, we met up with my parents in Geneva, NY so we could go to a Mexican restaurant in town. I didn’t have any great expectations for a Mexican restaurant in Upstate NY, but it wasn’t bad! The guys at the table next to us were Mexican day laborers, so I guess if they chose to eat here, then the place was going to be alright.
When we got home, we all did laundry.