Last Day in New Hampshire

Land of the tax free alcohol. Tax free everything, thus lots of out of state license plates at all the stores. We are outside Manchester in the woods. Nice spot, and the campground prices have plunged, less then half what they were a month ago. Diesel dropping too so we are making up for budget excess earlier in the summer. Jet and I did a rock climb up the side of Mt. Washington. They have not figured out switchbacks in NH yet. Just straight up following rock slides. I worried that it was getting too steep for Jet as we went mile after mile up over the rocks. He just kept leaping up and pulling me. Finally we broke out of the trees into the clear but faced a huge ledge that I could lift Jet on but it was slanted so he couldn’t advance. Then I worried about getting him off it on the way down, so we decided it was a good place to turn around. Jet plummeted down hill, leaping 3 feet at a time. Swear, the dog is part mountain goat. Me, that is another story, as I braked myself using all body parts. Was glad to reach level ground in the parking lot (yes that was the only level ground around). The campground we are in is kinda a summer camping spot for people that leave their rigs here year round. They seem to be trying to out do each other by putting additions on to their rigs, like decks, porches, woodsheds, sun rooms, etc. Good ideas but their carpentry skills are amusing. Lots leaning to going on. Hope they don’t get big snow. Some of the rigs haven’t seen the road in years nor a have they seen a scrub brush. Interesting. Jet finds the plastic flowers, plastic flowers, plastic gnomes, plastic rocks, all very scary and approaches all with butt lowered and nose up, ready to beat a hasty retreat if necessary. Only took about thirty tries to get the rig backed in here. Tight entrance but big spot. Provided entertainment for couple on a golf cart that just were riding around watching people back in. After a while this started to bother me a bit as I was not having a good backing in moment. After many glares they still didn’t get my annoyance. So when I finally got it in, I said to them sarcastically as I could, “Thanks for all the help” and they smiled and said “Your welcome.” Right over their heads! Took me a minute to calm down and get over it. Suzy was helpful. One of our problems was our walkie talkies ran out of battery so we were having trouble communicating. Suzy did say we were doing much better then the couple a few lots down where there was some angry shouting going on in the backing in process. Off to Portsmouth, NH today and then Cape Cod tomorrow. Got a nice spot reserved in Sandwich, MA on the shoulder of the Cape.