Sep 6 – After spending a little over a week in the small town of Bethlehem, New Hampshire it’s time to move on. We had planned to leave for Maine earlier but decided to wait until hurricane Earl and the holiday weekend had passed. Hard to get a spot to park a big RV on a holiday weekend if you didn’t make a reservation. Last week, when it was still warm, Maggie and I went to a small river nearby and cooled off a bit. Here is a photo of the river.
We went to a place called “Castle in the Clouds” a couple of days ago. It is a large home built near the top of a mountain. It overlooks a very large lake. They guy bought all the land between his house and the lake (6500 acres) so he could preserve it. He made millions in the 1920s but living like a king quickly drained his holdings and he died a pauper. The house alone cost more than a million to build and the second owner got the entire property for $175k in taxes.
This morning we rode a tram to the top of Mt Cannon. The sky was hazy for most of the time we’ve been here but today it was clear. According to the guy operating the tram we could see for more than 60 miles. We saw mountain tops in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York.
They had a ski museum at the bottom of the mountain and we got to see Bode Miller’s Olympic medals from the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Turns out he was raised in the town of Franconia (a couple miles away) and learned to ski on those mountains. I guess it’s a good place to learn how to ski with snow on the ground half the year.
Tomorrow, Tuesday morning, we're leaving for Maine.
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