NET wrapup

Today is the last day of the New England Tour (NET). Time to look back.

By the numbers: 88 days in 8 different campgrounds. Towing miles: 471 over 7 hops. Cumulative truck miles: 4293. Campground fees: approximately $5,500 (about $62.50 per night). Yes, RV campsites in New England are expensive.

Highlights:

• Seeing family. The NET was spectacularly successful in this respect. We saw brothers, sisters, sons, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and various other relatives.  Hardly a weekend went by where we didn’t see family.
• Playing softball. Though I could not commit to a team due to my need to leave Aug 1, I was able to play a “fill in” role on several teams, performing very well.  And saw Big Papi one day.
• Finding headstones.  While most visits to cemeteries were failures, I had some very satisfying successes: Jett’s paternal grandmother, a pair of great-grandparents, some of Jett’s colonial relatives, including some of her Mayflower ancestors and a bunch of others.  On my side of the ledger, I found one of my most famous ancestors, Gov John Webster of CT, plus some of my ancestors who founded Hartford CT and Woburn MA.
• Catching up with old friends.
• Attending the Escapees Chapter 3 rally at Newfound Lake NH.
• Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth MA.

Lowlights:

• Cold, wet weather. May and most of June were unseasonably chilly and very wet.  July was better, but we still had the heat on several nights and had one night toward the end of July where we could see our breath.  There was very little “beach weather.”
• The annoying seasonal residents at Sea-Vu West in Wells ME. The people there had a very strong dislike of transients like us.  Well, we formed a very strong dislike of both this campground and its residents.  There is 0% chance that we will ever go back there.
• Health. I was fine, but Jett suffered though a pinched nerve and other physical issues that sucked the fun out of many of her days.  Some relatives also had significant health issues.  Tough to get old.