Back in the U.S.A.

Crossing the border at Calais, Maine (St. Stephens, NB) was a breeze.  Lovely lady came aboard, asked a couple of questions and said, "Enjoy your trip!"  Took all of five minutes.  We drove across Maine, abandoning our previously planned trip to the coast (avoiding summer crowds) and headed straight for Stowe, Vermont.  Spent one night in Gorham, New Hampshire, a Good Sam campground about a mile east of town and it was fine.  Then on to Goldbrook, just south of Stowe.  Adjacent to open fields that were getting ready for a BIG antique, classic car show.  The guy who runs the campground has a reputation that precedes him of being a grouchy, grumpy grinch.  He lived up to it.  Regardless, we will stay there again for numerous reasons including a good site plus friends and family nearby.  Great beer in Waterbury!

Then the long haul began last Friday.  From Stowe we traveled south on I-89, then I-91 to the Mass Pike which is actually I-90 and west to I-81 and thence south to Unadilla, New York for the night, only 363 miles.  The next day, Saturday, we pushed on to just north of Columbus, Ohio, 662 miles.  And the next day, Sunday, to Eureka, MO to a KOA just west of St. Louis near Six Flags on I-44, 526 miles.   Monday, 473 miles to Oklahoma City, across MO and a good part of OK where we put down at Twin Fountains our usual stopping place as we have family in OKC and if we're going to Camp Newell, which we skipped this time, it's convenient.   Left there yesterday afternoon and overnighted in Amarillo and decided against our usual stopover at Overnite and opted for the KOA.  Hmmm.
Today we will cap off about 300 more miles to Albuquerque for a couple of days and then "home" to Santa Fe for a few months.  If anyone wants more info or details let us know.  The past five days are  a blur of interstates, mostly good roads with several exceptions that fortunately didn't last long.

So this latter part of our summer travels from Nova Scotia back to Santa Fe has covered some 3100 miles and if you add the first part, from Santa Fe to Nova Scotia via Montreal and Quebec, you can add another 3000+ miles since we left Santa Fe back in June and stopped at the Guru Rally in the Ozarks and spent a couple of days at Camp Newell.  That's a lot of miles and mucho fuel and many campgrounds.  And "Big Blue" has performed admirably.  Highlights have to be the rally, the Maritime Provinces, as well as Montreal and Quebec and yes, the Clydesdales plus our meeting Wayne Martin in New Brunswick.  Many stories to share later, down the road when we see you.