New Hampshire Trip Day 6
Today is our last full day in New Hampshire(okay, so we stayed in Vermont, but we could see New Hampshire from here). We woke up to a sleet/snow/rain mix. Beautiful. We wandered out into the cold to drive south towards Keene, about 50 miles south and the last part of the state we had yet to visit. First we drove through Dartmouth and checked out what the town was like when it is alive. We noticed lots of construction and expansion of the colleges which is a good thing I guess.
We decided to take a road south that folows the Connecticut River that forms the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. After about 20 miles of that I got bored so I consulted my GPS and turned left up into the hills. We followed many dirt roads and came to many dead ends that were blocked with deep snow. We passed several maple farms and even saw some wild turkeys. Shannon is still disappointed that she didn’t get to see a moose. She now thinks there is no such animal.
We passed many covered bridges along the way. Most of them are still quite functional and not there just for decoration. In fact, only one of the 1/2 dozen or so we saw today was off limits.
We pulled in to Keene around 2pm under heavy rain. We were surprised at how busy this little town is. The downtown section is very much alive and quite busy. Main Street Keene is known as The Widest Paved Main Street in the World. Ok, yeah, it’s wide. We ate at a small diner on Main Street where the food was quite good and very reasonably priced.
With the rain and such we decided we just wanted to crash in our room and were back in the hotel before 5pm where we are sitting around watching TV and getting ready to fly back home tomorrow. There also happens to be a job fair at the hotel across the street tomorrow so I guess I’ll drop by and see what’s on offer before we drive back to Manchester to fly home.