{"id":5112,"date":"2017-07-31T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2017-07-31T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:25:07","slug":"net-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/net-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"NET wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day of the New England Tour (NET). Time to look back.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seeing family. The NET was spectacularly successful in this respect. We saw brothers, sisters, sons, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and various other relatives.\u00a0 Hardly a weekend went by where we didn&#8217;t see family.<\/li>\n<li>Playing softball. Though I could not commit to a team due to my need to leave Aug 1, I was able to play a &#8220;fill in&#8221; role on several teams, performing very well.\u00a0 And saw Big Papi one day.<\/li>\n<li>Finding headstones.\u00a0 While most visits to cemeteries were failures, I had some very satisfying successes: Jett&#8217;s paternal grandmother, a pair of great-grandparents, some of Jett&#8217;s colonial relatives, including some of her <em>Mayflower<\/em> ancestors and a bunch of others.\u00a0 On my side of the ledger, I found one of my most famous ancestors, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Webster_(governor)\">Gov John Webster<\/a> of CT, plus some of my ancestors who founded Hartford CT and Woburn MA.<\/li>\n<li>Catching up with old friends.<\/li>\n<li>Attending the Escapees Chapter 3 rally\u00a0at Newfound Lake NH.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pilgrim_Hall_Museum\">Pilgrim Hall<\/a> in Plymouth MA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lowlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cold, wet\u00a0weather. May and most of June were unseasonably chilly and very wet.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 There was very little &#8220;beach weather.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The annoying seasonal residents at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sea-vuwest.com\/\">Sea-Vu West<\/a> in Wells ME. The people there had a very strong dislike of transients like us.\u00a0 Well, we formed a very strong dislike of both this campground and its residents.\u00a0 There is 0% chance that we will ever go back there.<\/li>\n<li>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.\u00a0 Some relatives also had significant health issues.\u00a0 Tough to get old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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