In September 2007, we camped in the Merrimack Valley in New Hampshire. The trailer required merely 19 months of renovation work to make this trip.
We traveled from its resting spot in Rhode Island to a campground in New Hampshire. Since we were driving early in the morning, we decided to go directly through Boston’s Big Dig using Interstate 93. We made it through unscathed.
We stayed at the Wakeda Campground . Aluminuts and I usually avoid RV campgrounds, but we were short on planning time and had to make arrangements quickly. The campground was nearly empty as we arrived on the last weekend of the season. We didn’t have any close neighbors, and it felt private enough. If the campground were fully booked, though, other campers would be right on top of you.
We prepared salmon with corn maque choux for dinner our first night. One can eat like a king with the convenience of a kitchen in the wild.
The following weekend, we took the Airstream to Salem, MA, for our friends’ wedding. We camped in the driveway of the bride and groom.
During the week in between, we stored the Airstream in a guy’s backyard in southern NH, located through Craigslist. We didn’t have a place to park it in Boston, and we didn’t want to tow in back to Rhode Island and have to make the same trip the next weekend. I was impressed by Aluminuts’ ingenuity in finding a RV parking spot online.
See a full account of our voyage with pictures in the First Camping Trip slideshow on our Flickr page.
