Heading Home

We spent 5 days in Lancaster, PA.  We enjoyed the Sight and Sound Theater's presentation of NOAH.
Hopefully we will some day see the Christmas presentation.
We experienced about 10 inches of rain over a 48 hour period.  The creek that ran through the campground flooded.
 

We enjoyed the Amish food and the farming countryside.  One day we made a trip to Hersey's Chocolate World.

Tonight we are at Fort Chiswell Campground (Wytheville, VA).  The most interesting part of this campground is that it is located between to cattle farms.

We will be home tomorrow!!!
This ends the New England Blog.

Mountain Washington Cog Railway

The cog railway was invented 

by a man from Littleton, NH.

to climb to the top of 

Mt. Washington.           

With the exception of war times,  the railway has carried visitors

to the top since July,1869.

                                            

       

These were the first engines used.

They were built specifically for the cog railway.

Later they used coal burning steam engines.  The steam engine runs only once a day now.

Now they are using bio-diesel engines to be environmentally friendly.

We are almost to the top.  Looking down we can see 

where the tracks divide allowing trains to pass

 each other as they travel up and down the mountain.

It takes almost an hour to get to the top traveling about 

4 mph.

It was chilly up on top!

We were lucky to have a clear day and could a long distance.

The White Mountains of New Hampshire

Kancamagus Highway 

and

Franconia Notch Highway

Today, We drove a loop beginning from Conway through the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

  

 

There are many covered bridges in New Hampshire.

   

This is a 4 recreational season area!
They have many lakes for summer fun and mountain resorts.  There is everything from riding the rails behind a steam locomotive to zip lines.  We passed about 10 different winter resorts for skiing and snowmobiling.

The shopping is tax free.  That will be another day.

Acadia National Park (part 2)

Jordan Pond

We had lunch at Jordan Pond.  Lunch included the famous popovers.

The flower gardens were beautiful.

Sand Beach

Even through there are miles of ocean surrounding the island the only beach in the park is Sand Beach.  It is a small area.  The summer water temperature reaches about 50 degrees.

The beach is in a small cove and there are rock cliffs on each side of the beach.

Sand beach seen from a hike around the rock ledge.

There are many trails that lead out to the rocky ledges overlooking the ocean.