Day #26
Florida NY to Westhampton MA 180 miles via I84 and I91
The Black Bear Campground here is nice, nothing fancy, but comfortable and quiet. Along with quiet the other things we look for are security and good WIFI and cable or at least good TV reception with the converter box. We're finding that most of the places lie little about either the WIFI, TV reception or both. Bookings are down in the campgrounds this year, they also tell us that they will be booked solid and they never are..
This campground is loaded with deer. Every time we leave, we drive through a wooded section and see at least one, who sits there only feet away, looking at us very calmly. They don't even bother to get up most of the time, laying down and chewing. We were told that there are five deer 'families' there an two of the mama deer have twins. We saw one of the does with her fawns last night drinking out of the pond. Very cute...except when are eating your landscaping!
The trip today was short, it was hot. We got to the KOA near Springfield mid afternoon. There is a nice pool so we took an hour to enjoy the sun...we don't swim in ice water though. The countryside here is typical new England and there are some beautiful homes, also mountain views.
We needed a few things and went into town, we were not far from Springfield and went into the city, we'd never been in downtown Springfield. Like so many other places on this trip, drove by many times but never actually drove in.
Tonight we saw a good deal of the tornado damage. It is hard to imagine it until you actually are standing in the middle of it. Those magnificent 100+ year old trees snapped like matchsticks. Street after street of destroyed homes, some leveled, some badly damaged. We only saw a small portion of the tornado's path and it is still hard to believe that such a strong, wide and long lasting tornado happened here, Oklahoma, sure...but NOT here!
Tomorrow we leave to travel across Massachusetts to be closer to Cape Cod and Boston.
2 comments:
So you are in my neighborhood and didn't even drop in? Sorry the weather is so lousy! But given how bad it was the week of the storms, we must not complain!
Yikes! That looks so scary.
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