Monday 19 October 2009
Belmont, MA sunny & cold
Dan was gone when we got up and the girls were getting ready for school. Anne was busy with lunches, and breakfast. We had our final visits and giggles with them and then switched to bunches of hugs good bye.
Rob, YumYum and I headed for the Seville back at Fam Camp. Gene Comier had made a comment about how I looked younger with my hair shorter (we had been showing them past pictures of our home, other adventures, etc) My hair has been bugging me anyway and his comment stuck in my mind so I thought that’s it. If I had the barber sheers with me I would have buzzed it off myself, but instead we went on base and I had it all cut off there. Not quite the short spiky cut that Monica does back in Incline, but much better than what was going on.
It is a beautiful sunny day. It is funny, after all the storm, rain and snow yesterday there is not a cloud in the sky. We pack up our little home, dumped our tanks and were on the road by noon. We are headed to Hidden Valley campground which is near Stockbridge, MA. We will probably get there around 3 or 4 pm. We will chill somewhat today, do laundry, etc and then tomorrow go to Stockbridge and visit all the Norman Rockwell stuff, his museum, studio etc. I am happy to be on the road again.
The drive to Stockbridge was nice and comfortable. We listened to a book on tape, “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri (winner of the Pulitzer Prize). Anne recommended it to us. It is nice.
It is a little disappointing the rather than lots of awesome leaf colors, many of the trees are bare. It is still a beautiful day and the Berkshires are really pretty.
We arrived at the Hidden Valley campground at about 3:30. It is in the woods. They are all really big sites, but the hookups are odd. The one they assigned to us was nice, but the electric and water hook up were beyond our reach, they had to give us another one and it didn’t have water at all. We filled our fresh water tank before going up to our site. We will only be here two nights.
Rob went for a run and I organized dinner. He came back about an hour later and said let’s go watch the sun go down. So we drove about 8 miles up to the top of Greylock Mountain. It was 3491' the highest point in Massachusetts.. There was some snow and ice at the top. There is a lodge up at the top which is a camp over for hikers on the Appalachian Trail. It was so cool that we have finally come across the AP. I have read lots about it and really wanted to hike it (I really wanted to hike it many years ago. Now I’d like to ride parts of it.) Actually, it would be fun to bike the whole thing in parts.
It was fun. We cam back to our abode and I fixed dinner. We were told by the lady who checked us in that she didn’t think we’d be able to find anymore open RV grounds further north so we figured we better solidify our plans and call places to make sure we will have places to stay.
Currently it is 37° here in Pitsfield.
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