Deb and I took a belated Anniversary getaway weekend camping trip up in New Hampshire last weekend. It absolutely poured! It actually started raining the weekend before and hadn't stopped - really, I don't think it ever stopped raining - by the time we left. It finally stopped raining on Sunday morning when we were packing up to come home.
The campground was saturated and normally this means - mud and lots of it. We took the Skipster with us which means - mud in the camper and lots of it. Strangely though, there was practically none. The soil was a strange sandy composition so our shoes and paws - and the camper - stayed remarkably clean.
Coming home we stopped by a huge quilt store that Deb adores. As much as I was tempted to go in, I stayed in the camper to keep Skip company (yeah right). Planning on hours of boredom, I happened to spot a canoe and kayak store across the street. Well, ever since the Greenway challenge adventure I've been thinking more and more about kayaks. I've even bought a couple of books. So, I went over and chatted with the owner for awhile. He had some really beautiful boats and I'm really starting to get the bug to give this a try. There are a number of places in Rhode Island that have lesson/tour arrangements that I think we are going to try. I'm not sure if we could get something in this year or if we'd have to wait until Spring so we'll see. My biggest concern is my back and it would hold up with all the twisting motion.
Anyway, on the way home, we saw some amazing torrents of water coming down various rivers. When we got home, several areas of Uxbridge and surrounding towns were flooded/closed/damaged from all the water. The kids even had a "flood day" on Monday, apparently because some of the bus routes were impassable. Crazy
