Traveling the New Hampshire Highways

The leaves are beginning to turn. They say it is early. So we are wondering how soon we will be heading south. Gary says, "Two nights in the thirties and we are out of here!"

We have been driving through Bethlehem, NH every time we go into Littlelton to shop for groceries or to do laundry and have found it to be a fascinating little town. We noticed it to have quite a Jewish community there. Saturday evening here at the campground we met a couple of NH natives and one was explaining that the conservative Jews have moved in here from New York over the years and kept buying up property. So mystery is solved as to how they settled here. The town has many quaint little shops and antique shops . (We could not get this one all in one photo.) Some of our Salem Sunday School friends would have a good time in this area. Although we have not found too much in furniture yet. This is the Golf Clubhouse in Bethlehem . Note the stone structure. This is a Bed and Breakfast in Bethlehem and the Methodist Church which we thought that you might like to see, Michael. This Inn is for sale for $749,000 with ten bedrooms and nine baths. Think we will run out and buy it for the ambiance!

Yesterday we drove down the road to another location where cell reception is good and decided to check out the Mt. Washington Hotel right around the bend . We checked on line and they have some reasonable rates considering the amenities, like golf course and valet parking. You can see the Mt. Washington in the background but this hotel is on the opposite side of the mountain from the auto road that we took to the mountain top. This Hotel was built in 1902 in Bretton Woods by a wealthy railroad magnate, Joseph Stickney, to attract the fashionable and rich. That sure seems to be a magical time period of construction showing the wealth of that era. In it's heyday as many as fifty seven trains a day brought carloads of people to this resort.

The Silver Cascade is along side the road between the area where we make our phone calls and the Mt. Washington Hotel.

On another day tour Gary checked out The Old Stone Iron Furnace in Franconia where tools were made out of the local iron ore. The furnace structure is still in good shape. Gary needed wire to extend his tow dolly wiring so we drove down the highway (50 miles) to the nearest RV Dealer and on the way drove through Conway and North Conway, NH . Oh, what a tourist trap ! It was the first such shopping area that we found in NH. We did not think that they had much shopping, at least, not like we are used to in Ohio. The had many quaint gift shops and then outlet malls also. So we spent a little extra time looking around. After all, that is what we have plenty of. On the way we saw another ski resort though does not appear as high as the Peabody in the last Blog. Attitash Lodge here seems to be busy even at this time of the year without snow.

There are so many stone churches in this area. The ones I found interesting were made of natural stone , not the quarried stone.

The next time you hear from us should be from Maine. Take care.