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     Oct 13
2005
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 Of all the trips north we have made to New Hampshire and Ohio we have never seen the autumn leaves at their peak. However, this time was different. Since we started our trip in Derry which is in the south of New Hampshire and traveled north to Pittsburg in the Great North Woods  somewhere along the way we were bound to see leaves at their peak.   cc NH 051014 32.JPG (688220 bytes)

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  Cuzncindy gets her seasons mixed up. Here she is making 'leaf angels'.
         
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  Sharon preparing some of the fixins.
        Friday
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 We made a late start and a leisurely trip from Derry up to Pittsburg in the Great North Woods. Stopping a couple of times to take pix, empty and reload. You know how it is traveling with women :)    

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  Cuzncindy in Lancaster.
         
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Gene and Cuzncindy at the rest stop in Franconia Notch where the Old Man of the Mountain used to be before he succumbed to freezing and thawing.

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Cuzncindy, Sharon and Ed at the Blair Road bridge rest stop.
         
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Gene wanted some pix of the cover bridges found in NH to add to his collection. See more pix below.

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Bridge over the Ammonoosue River in Groveton.
         
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We stayed at Lopstick Lodge in Pittsburg on First Connecticut Lake.

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Loon Call at Lopstick.

Anyone know what a lopstick is?

We do ... now
        Saturday
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For as long as we have been going to New Hampshire, Sharon has been telling us there are moose to be seen everywhere. Well until this trip we have never seen any. The trip to The Great North Woods was planned to guarantee we would see some. The first evening there, we went out and sure enough we saw a couple cows. The middle picture left is what we could see and below is the enhanced image just to be sure it wasn't just another moose shaped shadow.

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Early the next morning we went out and saw this moose just hanging out on the side of the road.
         
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We didn't see any bull moose in the wild but the day after we arrived moose hunting season opened. A guy in the cabin next to ours got this one and brought it back in his pickup.

Below is a rack we saw that shows just how big these animals can be.

Moose are noisy when they walk through the woods and they have no fear. They will just stand there and look at you. Shooting them doesn't seem like much of a challenge. But i may be wrong.

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Other critters that we saw. We didn't get a picture of the skunk.

         
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Pittsburg is not far from Canada so early Saturday morning we dragged Cuzncindy out of bed, put her overcoat on and dragged her out to see the early morning moose and the U.S / Canada border.

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The Canadian side. The U.S. border guard told us the Canadian's didn't start work until 8. Presumably Canada is closed from midnight until 8am.

We saw a bag lady in no mans land between the two border posts going north for the winter...
...no wait. That's Cuzncindy taking pictures.

 

 

        
         
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It was still raining but we went out for breakfast and afterwards looked for some of the local bridges.

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We found the Happy Bend Bridge and the River Road bridge but gave up on the Pittsburg-Clarksville bridge when the road turned into little more than a drive in the woods. Sharon was not happy about reversing out if we couldn't find a place to turn around.

On the way back to Derry we came across the Columbia Bridge over the Connecticut River between Columbia, NH and Lemington, VT
           
         

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Blair Road Bridge over the Pemigewasset River in Campton just off I-93

  

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Bridge over the Ammonoosue River in Groveton.
         

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Happy Bend Bridge in Pittsburg, NH

  

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River Road Bridge, Pittsburg NH.

Even with the GPS we weren't able to find the Pittsburg-Clarksville Bridge. I guess there must be another Bacon Road.
         

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Railroad bridge in Groveton

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Bridge over the Connecticut River
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        Tuesday
Oct 18

We drove back to Derry on Sunday through a lot of heavy rain. The rivers were noticeably higher and Cuzncindy was appropriately worried.  By this time Ed's flu drugs were kicking in so he wasn't feeling as bad as he did but Sharon was going downhill. Monday Ed left us to go to Miami for a boat equipment exposition while we stayed in Derry relaxing for another day.

    Tuesday afternoon we packed up and caught the plane home. I didn't mention above that we stopped in Lancaster on the way home to pick up some maple syrup for Gene. He couldn't wait to try it so on Sharon made pancakes one morning and Gene opened one of the syrup bottles. Well it seems that the lid wasn't on real tight and with the reduced air pressure in the luggage compartment on the plane it leaked out. Fortunately the bottle was in one of Cuzncindy's suitcases. Needless to say she went into a laundry frenzy when we got home at 12:30 am!

Now all we have to look forward to is the arrival of Hurricane Wilma :(