Day 150
We departed from Bangor, Maine this morning headed for Lake Winnipesaukee KOA campground located north east of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Our stay in Bangor we excellent and really enjoyed the Pumpkin Patch Campground; we would recommend the campground to anyone, especially sites 54,55 and 77.
Prior to our departure, I met a retired farmer from Saskatchewan now living in BC, who has spent years traveling the winter months through the states. We discussed our travel plans and when I mentioned we are headed down the east coast, he advised me to go wide of the large cities with our coach. His reasoning was the overload of traffic in these cities is extremely crazy and not worth the risk driving through them.
I took his advice to heart and would double check our routes prior to us doing a jump. In this case I looked over our route to New Hampshire and noticed our route was going to take us right through Portland. I altered our route off the I95 as we approached Portland into a back county route towards our campground. The I95 surprisingly had two toll booths on it and had to pay about $13.00 US, even a little more inspiration to head to the smaller roads.
When we turned off the Main Highway, we noticed the roads where very narrow with trees growing close to the edge of the road. Throughout the drive I was fearful of getting my tires over the shoulder and catching one of the trees with the side of the Rv. I spent a good portion of the drive fretting about the shoulder and trees when I had to move over to allow oncoming traffic to pass. As we progressed further into the back county we noticed that the back roads were heavily populated and many of the houses along the roads were rundown, giving us a feeling of insecurity. I had images of two backwood rednecks coming out and insisting we go to their farm for dinner, and we were the main course 😧. I think I have watched to many horror movies with backwood rednecks in them 🤔.
We made it to the campground around three and decided to re-evaluate how we plan our jumps, the idea of driving the backroads may not be the ideal solution. We made ourselves comfortable in our new home for the next few days and I began to make dinner for Lori.
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