Thursday, September 27, 2012 – Travel Day to BuckNHorse in New Hampshire

Since the total travel time to our next stop was only about an hour and a half, we let ourselves sleep an extra hour beyond our usual travel day schedule, and we stopped for a sitdown breakfast at a little cafe just south of the forest. Picked up fuel along the way as well, otherwise an uneventful trip, though the fall colors are just perfect, and we saw a few beautiful vistas along the way. My Navigation app on my new smartphone was picture perfect getting us the BuckNHorse, except for the last quarter mile. There were no signage for the campground, and only a mailbox at the end of the gravel road to assure me we were in the right place. How far up the road was the question. I stopped halfway to call Dave, the owner, because honestly, the road didn’t look like much and it was getting worse as we went, and I certainly didn’t want to get into someplace I couldn’t get out, especially considering we were climbing a pretty steep hill, not one I’d be happy about having to back down again. I got Dave on the phone, though, and he assured me to keep coming, so we kept climbing. Then I saw him in the road waving at me, but the last 100 feet were the worse, very steep, so much so the tires on my 6.6L diesel GMC starting spinning! Finally managed to get a grip and made it to the top. Sure glad the way out is downhill! Made our introductions and Dave led us down a small hill with a row of campsites on each side, each with a hot wire corral at the back of it and some scrub brush to separate each site, so not much of a view. He gave us our choice of sites, and in fact, let us have two sites, one for the RV and one for the horse trailer, as the place was empty except for a couple of permanent seasonal sites. Hubby picked the ones he thought would be best for his satellite dish, we did our business with Dave (quite a bit more than we usually pay, but then again, we have water, electric and sewer on site, so I’ll be busy doing laundry all weekend :-), and we proceeded to get everything and everyone settled in. Hubby had a little trouble finding a satellite signal after all, as there was a row of trees in the way, but he finally managed to sneak past a few to get a decent signal. At last I had a good enough cell phone signal to use my mobile hot spot, yeah! It did drop out occasionally, but I still managed to get quite a bit of work done. It was a nice day, but the weather forecast isn’t looking very good, predicting lots of rain overnight, and intermittent all weekend, with cold temps tomorrow, moderating up a little each day, but not really getting into what we would call comfortable for a ride. We’ll have to ride bundled up and between showers, then, as we have to check of New Hamphire from the list!