Blogs from New Hampshire, United States, North America

Today we got up, had breakfast, then Karen and I headed out with Ed looking for a place to get into the river. The bank at our place was pretty steep and after all the rain there was a good bit more water. We drove down our road, looked at all the houses and learned our road eventually was a dead end. We didn’t find one place to get in the river, which turned away from the road at one point. We went out to the main road and found a bridge over the river which looked like you could get to the stream easily. Sadly it was posted no fishing, no swimming, no trespassing. However there was an old covered bridge which had been converted into a gift shop. We thought we’d go in the ... read more

You may recall, that I left you all with a bit of a cliffhanger at the end of the last episode. How far away was Hurricane Lee? Would it hit Mount Desert Island before the Famous Four managed to get away? Would they all be stranded at the Kimball Terrace Inn and would they all have to hunker down in one room and listen to the wind whistling through the crack in Steve & Lily's balcony door? These questions and many more will be answered in this next thrilling episode of Gone with the Wind, meets The Perfect Storm, meets Twister and starring Claude Rains (yes he was a British actor from the 30s and 40s) playing Steve Forbes, Hurricane Higgins (in his acting debut) playing Paul Kilby, Michelle Gayle (once of Eastenders) playing Lily Forbes ... read more

Well, all of our reservations have been made and we are ready to go. One week from today we will be heading off to Paris, France to pick up our van and head off on our European adventures. Sending off this short blog so that we can check to make sure you are all receiving the blog. If you receive it, please click on “comment”, and let me know.... read more

This entry has taken a while to be able to write and is dedicated to our sweet prince Tarragon. We unfortunately lost him on September 13, at 1:30-pm and he went on his last journey without us. Tarragon came to us 13 years ago, he was a stray that ruled Stanton Street in Portland, Oregon. It was pretty clear to us that his former family had abandoned him, as when he finally came in the house 4 months later, he was perfectly trained. It did take him a year to trust us enough to give us the honor of petting him, but from then on, the three of us were inseparable. Those of you that have followed this blog have heard many stories of his travels with us. Domestically, he almost always traveled with us. We ... read more

We were up nice and early (or should I just say early as the temperature is only 2 degrees outside !). I have put on 5 layers of clothing today for the trip to the Sunday River Golf Club. It was about 30 minutes drive away from the hotel and hit off time was booked for 8.30 am so we left around 7.15 am after breakfast so I would have time to collect my rental clubs, and get a warm up and be ready to play. Kerry was waiting in the pro shop whilst I was warming up keeping warm and looking for any nice souvenir mementos. They gave me a set of fairly new Callaway clubs and off to the range I went and I was quite surprised how well I was hitting the woods ... read more