August 2007

Aug. 31st we picked up Kathleen’s new bike, we did take it on a bike path but because of rain we had to stop our biking.

Aug. 28th we left early for a trip to Northern Maine. Was mostly a geocaching adventure and it turned out to be a wonderful sightseeing journey. We keep on saying that geocaching takes you to places less traveled and to see sights that are not on the regular commercial venue. We got to see a couple of great waterfalls that were fantastic. In the campground we did meet up with Rich and Barb from New Jersey and spent the two nights talking with them. They would like to become fulltime campers, in about 2 years.

Aug. 24th on a scheduled day off we were asked to work as Becky (the owner’s daughter had a baby, it is their first grandchild) so we swapped days off as we did not have a problem doing this as they are very good to us.

Aug. 22nd we went to Laconia to order a bike for Kathleen. We than did some geocaching and sightseeing around Lake Winnipesaukee. We especially liked the town of Wolfeboro “known as the oldest resort town in the U.S.”. We walked around the town and the boat piers and just enjoyed the whole area. After leaving Wolfeboro we did get to the “Castle in the clouds” what a great area as you can see the mountains meet the lake. Rather than going home and cooking we ate at Walter’s Basin in Holderness, as we had a table with a view to the lake.

August 21, John & Linda Vandermark came over from Vermont for a visit. They showed us a great when we visited them, so we had to return the favor. After a short chat we drove over to and drove the “Kanc” as it is a breath taking drive. We stopped at several overviews and also at Royal Gorge. From there we went to Mt. Washington and took the auto road to the summit. For those that have been on the auto road, you know the experience but for us first timers it is an experience. At the summit the views were spectular as it was a great day. We were very fornicate with the weather as it was 50 degrees on top and less than 5 MPH wind speed, it was advertised that you could see 100 miles. On the drive home we came through Franconia, past the remains of the “Old man of the mountain” and stopped at the Woodstock Inn for supper (a place that I would recommend to any one). It was such a great day, as we bid good-bye with a tear. They are going out west in a month and we will be going that way in spring and we hope to meet soon.

August 16, “WE FOUND IT” Over the course of the last several months we have been getting information on the location of a crashed B-18A bomber. It crashed in Jan, 1942 on the side of Mt.Waternomee, 7 crew on board and five came away alive. For more information go to: http://www.logginginlincoln.com/Page2.html. This was no easy task, and we did try before we had a GPS. At that time we went as far as we could without getting lost. Today we had the GPS and hiked the first mile on a great trail to a clearing. After that the trail was an overgrown logging trail from the turn of the last century. We knew that the bomber was a mile from the clearing and after hours hike of 1 mile we were still a mile to the bomber. At that point we went across the mountain towards the bomber. Half of the time we should have had a machete as the limbs, bog, rocks downed trees and any other obstacle in the way. It took us 4 hours to get there. The last 3oo feet we found a trail. It was great when we came to the area and across the last obstacle there was a flag at the spot of the plaque, made us feel good. The elevation here was 2747ft. We are entering the GPS coordinates at the plaque: N 44 00.514 W 071 46.919. We spent some time in the area as we knew the crashed over a wide area, and would not be able to see all of it and we had to start our journey back. The trail we found we used to go back but let us say it is not a trail but only paint marked on trees. We followed it for a mile and realized that it was taking us away from the clearing we had to get to. We than turned through the forest to continue our hike and finally got to the clearing. As we were here before we knew we were home free. If we were asked today to do it again, NO WAY. Maybe tomorrow we will feel better about it. After this was all over and getting home and cleaning up. We treated ourselves to supper at The Twig, and also Sky King was having open mic that evening. So we enjoyed a few songs before leaving and crashing at home.


August 15, Went back to Laconia to return the bike that was lent to us. We ordered a new bike for Kathleen and were told it would take a week, in the mean time the distributor exhausted their supply of “07” and are awaiting shipments of the “08”. The bike shop loaned us a bike for the Bar Harbor trip. We than played a round of golf on a par three executive course.

Aug. 10th as we awoke and prepared breakfast and broke camp upon leaving the campground we encountered a camper that I knew at Red Run. We spent a lot of the day exploring Mt. Desert Island before we left and we did find 4 geocaches today that took us all over the place. Got back to New Hampshire a 10:00 pm that night.

Aug. 9th we did a Wal-Mart run to get an air mattress for the tent. We also did some more geocaching and went to places the normal traveler would not go on the island. Did some sightseeing, as the skies were perfectly clear. Rode the bikes around Eagle Lake about 6 mi. We than went on our prearranged Whale watch and what a great time that was. We spotted one whale that was feeding in a school of fish near the surface. We were watching him for well over 30 min. As we returned to shore another lobster dinner was just yelling for us and we enjoyed a great feast.

Aug. 8th we went to Bar Harbor, Me. Drove in rain all of the way and set up our tent in the rain. Because we couldn’t see anything we did do some geocaching. This is a great activity as it takes you to places one would never go to. We found two caches today and then we went for a lobster dinner. We went to Abel’s and had a great dinner. After that the sun came out and we went to Bar Harbor to do some shopping and sign up for whale watching. Returned to Hadley’s Point campground as the winds increased greatly after trying to spent the night in the tent we moved into the car because of the noise. Not a very good night’s sleep.

Aug. 3rd in this heat we stayed low and did some geocaching and found a great cache in a limestone kiln in NH. Went looking for a second one but the heat got to us and we went back to the pool.

Aug. 2nd we went to the Polar Caves in Rumney, NH and spent some time there, it was very enjoyable and exciting. With all of this hot weather again we hit the pool.
Aug. 1 Took a short hike to a waterfalls just to sit in the falls and enjoy, but with the lack of rain in the area the most you could get wet was the bottom of your feet and the falls were dried up. With this we went back to the campground and jumped into the pool.