{"id":5047,"date":"2017-07-11T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2017-07-11T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T13:43:23","slug":"net-hop-6-northwood-nh-to-littleton-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/net-hop-6-northwood-nh-to-littleton-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"NET Hop 6: Northwood NH to Littleton MA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"NET<\/a>

NET Hop 6<\/p><\/div>\n

69 miles via NH 43, NH 101, I-93, I-495 (around Boston) and MA 3A. Cumulative tow miles: 431. Truck miles: 545. Cumulative truck miles: 2575.<\/p>\n

This was a very easy, quick hop. I actually expected the traffic to be brutal as I thought many people would have been ending a week-long 4th of July vacation on Sunday. But traffic was, if anything, light. No stop-and-go stretches at all. I barely had to use the brakes. A pleasure.<\/p>\n

Our home for 9 nights in NH was the Saddleback Campground<\/a> – the campground where we started our RV lifestyle 5 years ago in the summer of 2012. Then, as now, we chose the campground because it was very near the summer cottage of Jett’s sister. It was a very adequate first campground, but we had nothing to compare it to. We now can compare it to dozens of other campgrounds.<\/p>\n

It has changed very little in 5 years. The things we liked then – the solitude, the cute pond, the friendly hosts (even though the hosts are different now than they were then) – are still the things we like now. The things we didn’t like much then – the difficult, sometimes cramped, sites, the lack of sewer service on most sites and very limited TV antenna reception – are still the things we don’t like much now. In 2012 we paid for cable TV, but that wasn’t an option this time, so we survived mostly by watching DVDs.<\/p>\n

Unlike our 2012 site which had limited a sewer hookup (gray water only), we had no sewer hookup at all this time. We survived quite well without it, getting a pumpout just before we departed. The pumpout extracted over 100 gallons of sewage, but as our total tank capacity is 200 gallons, we weren’t pushing it. This was a surprise as I really thought a week would be our limit, but we made it 9 days without difficulty.<\/p>\n

The weather, while not perfect, was better than we have seen for any week so far this summer. Several downpours and thunder interrupted the otherwise sunny and warm weather (though I still had to don a jacket most mornings). Spending time with Jett’s family on Lucas Pond was a joy, as always. I will post those photos separately.<\/p>\n

As usual, the campground put on a private fireworks show on July 2. We didn’t see it because Rusty is not much of a fan (he just about jumps out of his skin, like most dogs), so we left. But I am sure it was a very nice show.<\/p>\n

They also showed Ice Age<\/em> on the beach at dusk another night. With free popcorn. I am a sucker for free movies and free popcorn.<\/p>\n

The campground, in association with other NH campgrounds, sponsored a Make-a-Wish event on the day we arrived. The Make-a-Wish Foundation bought a small trailer for a mother and her two children, the younger one having a terminal illness. The camper is welcome, free of charge, at a number of campgrounds in southern NH this summer, to satisfy the mother’s wish of giving her daughter a summer of camping. It was a touching ceremony and a great opportunity to meet the hosts, the mother and her family and the other campers.<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our site, across the pond<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ice<\/a>

Ice Age showing on the beach<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The pond<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The donated trailer<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cutting<\/a>

Cutting the Make-a-Wish cake<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

69 miles via NH 43, NH 101, I-93, I-495 (around Boston) and MA 3A. Cumulative tow miles: 431. Truck miles: 545. Cumulative truck miles: 2575. This was a very easy, quick hop. I actually expected the traffic to be brutal as I thought many people would have been ending a week-long 4th of July vacation … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60,9,4,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-places-nh","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}