A Quiet Sunday

Sunday, October 7, 2012

A Quiet Sunday

It was a little brisk when we awoke this morning and headed for the wash house. I would call 52 degrees inside the trailer (we don’t use the heater over night) and 42 degrees outside (we have no control over that!). We had a brisk walk to the wash house.

Today was a different kind of a Sunday for us. It started with breakfast in a small town, family run restaurant called Dominick’s. The food was nothing to rave about but it wasn’t bad. There were a good amount of customers. Even the water didn’t have that campground smell and taste to it. And the servers were pleasant. We left Dominick’s and walked to the corner store for a newspaper and then drove back to the campground instead of to church. Since we couldn’t get any information we just decided to come back to the campground.

Assuming that a lot of regular businesses would be open on the official Columbus Day, I had expected that a lot of the campers would have been gone because tomorrow was a work day. Wrong! Some had left or were preparing to leave but many had settled in to enjoy this brisk day around a campfire. Tom had mentioned that the “seasonal” campers here come for the community as much as the camping.

Tom settled down to devour the newspaper while I started to be unable to keep my eyes open. I soon decided to crawl into bed, so into the sleeping bag I went. I couldn’t get warm. That’s a sure sign of being over-tired for me. I did sleep but I still couldn’t get warm. I may need to put an extra blanket on the bed tonight.

After lunch we went looking for a cache in Connecticut. It was one for which we couldn’t stop when we had the trailer in tow. It was raining when we headed out but it soon stopped. I ventured a guess that we were headed in the correct direction. And we were. Tom found it rather easily. Now all we need is Vermont, which we will get tomorrow (we hope) and Rhode Island, which we have no hopes of getting this trip and we will have completed finding caches in New England. We’ll just have to come back.

The rain held off when we arrived at camp, so Tom grilled hot dogs for dinner tonight. After the dishes were finished it started to rain but didn’t last for long. Now we are settled in for logging the geocache find, picking up email, etc. Checking the weather forecast for the near future, the low tonight will be 35 degrees (where is that extra blanket?), and the high for tomorrow will be 57 degrees.

I think tonight will be an early bed time so that I will be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for tomorrow’s journey. Tom adds: Tomorrow we expect to explore part of the Connecticut River Byway as outlined in National Geographic’s “Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways.” This goes from the Mass. Border Northward along the Vermont and New Hampshire border. Of course we will enjoy the scenery, and also search for some caches.