Back to Vermont

Apr 30, 2018 - Well we headed out again for the summer. Our trip on the train was MUCH better this year than last year. We left on time, had a decent ride, good dinner and actually arrived 39 minutes EARLY! BIG difference from last year. It was still cold, and we did pass a few piles of snow driving in.

We reserved a motel room in St. Johnsbury, Vermont for a night because we didn't know how much had to be done before we could stay in it. We had to "winterize" our rig with anti-freeze in the pipes and peppermint oil in all the cabinets to keep the critters out. It turned out that the peppermint smell wasn't that bad and hooking up and getting stuff done took less time than we thought.

Three other 'seasonal' campers were here helping to open the campground. We left the inside work and cleaned up around our site and helped the others to clean up the rest. There is more work to be done outside because the river froze this winter and ice jams wiped out electric poles on five sites, three down from us, rutted out some of the road and downed a few trees. Good thing Gary has his own excavating business. The owners, Mary and Gary, treated everyone to dinner that night for helping, there were twelve of us; that's the kind of people they are.

We spent the next day cleaning up inside. I forgot one soap container in my bathroom, and it froze and, when it thawed, was all over my counter.

Right now, the river is higher than we've ever seen it and it's getting scary again. It has a way to go to get to us BUT! with the run-off of ice and snow upstream, who knows. AND it's raining again........