This was the delayed ending to the QTN: two short travel days separated by a 2-week stay at Circle Cg Campground.
QTN Hop 5, Day 1: Foxboro, MA, to Bellingham, MA
14 miles via US 1, I-495 and MA 140.
QTN Hop 5, Day 1
This trip took about 20 minutes. Tearing down and setting up took much longer.
This was our second stay at Circle Cg (we spent several weeks here last fall at the start of the QTS). We didn’t like it much then. This time we liked it a bit more – there were fewer campers this time, which gave it a more laid-back feel. But we were still happy to leave. It’s not a bad campground, but it’s not my cup of tea. Some campgrounds have high maintenance standards (e.g., Seminole, Normandy Farms) and some don’t. Circle Cg is ragged around the edges. And their weak attempts at decorations (it tries for a cowboy/western feel) comes off as tacky.
QTN Hop 5, Day 2: Bellingham, MA, to Littleton, MA
38 miles via MA 126, I-495 and MA 2A.
Hop 5, Day 2
It was another easy trip – about an hour. The only difficulty was the construction on I-495 (which, it seems, is ALWAYS under construction). That delayed us maybe 10 minutes. No big deal. We got to the Boston Minuteman Campground around 1pm and got set up by 2pm. We felt like we were home. I treated the dogs to a walk to the dog park (a treat because Circle Cg doesn’t have a dog park, so Rusty never got off the leash there and Grace had only limited opportunities to run free). There were exactly 9 other RVs in the park.
Our arrival at Minuteman marked the end of the Quick Trip North. Total: 2,316 miles over 5 weeks (6 weekends). The highlights? Biloxi and the Normandy Farms Campground. The lowlights? The crappy weather and the “Deliverance” campground in North Carolina. But we got 6 new stickers on our map, including the difficult-to-get Delaware and Maryland stickers. We passed on Rhode Island, which was included in our original QTN plan, but it won’t be hard to get later. So, 29 states down, 19 to go.