Boston

Lora and I headed out to spend time in Massachusetts with our nephew Nick and his fiance Amy. This was our first long trip with our new camper.

We made it to West Virginia the first night and stayed at a campground that Lora picked out. Nahkeeta Campsite. We met Moses at the front of the campground by the Airstream office. With long gray hair and beard, Moses couldn't talk. He pointed to the Airstream and I went in looking for someone to help me. There was nobody inside. I came back out and Moses was pointing to the trailer window which had a list of rules on the window. You must have reservations to camp here. Luckily we had called ahead. When I told him this he pointed to the camping loop. We had site B so we went looking. Unfortunately they started with 1 and went up from there. After driving around the loop Moses was at the end in a golf cart calling me with his finger. He drove me to the office and then down a gravel road with three sites on it. A,B, and C. Home for the night.

The next day Lora counted down the states that she had been in. We got a little off track and took a side trip thru Bethleham. We saw places that we want to go back to in the future. We arrived in Springfield in time for dinner. We parked in Nick's driveway, ate dinner, and then set out to tour the town. Without any luck getting information from the information office, we returned to the house and hiked up to and explored Forest Park.

Early the next morning, early because it gets lighter earlier in the East, we headed to Boston. We were to meet Nick and Amy at 10 so we had a few hours to check things out. We walked to the Capital building and the Boston Common. From there we walked to Trinity Church and Public Library. We went by the Church of Science, reflection pool, and then headed back to meet Nick and Amy at the Boston Public Market.

After getting together, we had to get a snack before our tour. There were food vendors in the Commons and we found the Cookie Monstah, chocolate chunk with cookie dough ice cream. YUMM! Then we did a historic Freedom Trail walking tour covering Boston Common, Massachusetts State House, Park Street Church, Granary Burying Ground, King's Chapel, Old South Meeting House, Old Corner Bookstore, Old State House, Boston Massacre Site, and Faneuil Hall. We had the best guide, a tavern wench that knew her stuff. She must have overheard many a conversation in that tavern. After the tour we had some really good clam chowder, cannoli from Mikes Pastry and Moderns Pastry, and pizza at Rina's after we toured the Old North Church. We also toured Old Iron Side.

We drove back to Nick's and visited for the night, celebrating Amy's birthday. The next morning Lora and I headed back to tour Boston harbor, Bunker Hill, Paul Revere's house, St. Leonard's Church, Massachusetts State House, and a couple of other churches. We also took in the Best Burger in Boston at Cobblestone.

Monday we toured S. Prestley Blake Law Center and the campus of Western New England University where Nick goes to school. Then we headed towards home.

We stopped at Twin Bridge Campground that Craig picked, outside of Chambersburg PA. Wasn't really sure when we pulled up as the campers were all around a barn, but found out that they have a beautiful campground on the other side of the road from the office. We had the lower campsites all to ourselves, right beside a creek, and a huge tree that would be cool to climb. We tried our awning for the first time in the rain, grilling chicken on the picnic table. When the rain stopped we saw a beautiful rainbow.

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