New Hampshire and our Boy

Our son Chris has lived in Chester, New Hampshire for a few years now and last Sunday we took off on a road trip to visit him. 

Traveling is certainly different right now. A majority of the drive between here and New Hampshire is on toll roads; none here in Michigan but then The Ohio Turnpike to the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the New York Thruway and lastly the Massachusetts Turnpike. So the only convenient place to stop were at Service Areas, and the only restaurants opened were McDonalds and Burger King. Blah! Note to self: Bring a cooler full of health foods for the drives!

Anyway, after a little less than 6 hours driving time we made it Rochester NY before stopping for the night. We actually stayed in a hotel in Pittsford which looked like a pretty affluent town at least from what I could see. 

The next day we did another 6 hours driving time and got to Chris's house a little 

before 5:00. 

Here's a selfie I took almost right away to let Shauna know that we had arrived!

It was so good to see him! We hadn't seen him since November.

Chester, NH is a small town and where my son lives is very wooded and beautiful! 

Here are some of the pictures of his house and yards. There is a pond in the back yard and a river across the street, both of which were very low because they haven't had a significant rain for a while!

The pond behind the house is about half the size it normally is. The water usually comes up past the tall grasses you see in the middle of the picture. 

The fire pit and burn pile. We did not have a fire because it was hot and humid the whole time we were there!

He has a huge garden that's all fenced off to keep the creatures out!

This is looking down the road from his house. 

The river across the street. It's a little hard to see but normally the water covers the rocks that you can see at the bottom of the tree on the far right.  

He was a good host. He cooked us breakfast and dinner. One day we went to the closest little town called Raymond that has the biggest grocery store called Hannafords.  

He lives about 25 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean so on the last full day we were there we went to Hampton Beach. It was beautiful with a boardwalk and a huge beach! We had lunch on the balcony of a restaurant overlooking the water. It wasn't busy at all but I bet when there isn't a pandemic it's a booming place!! 

The time went by way too fast and before we knew it we were leaving on Thursday morning. We all had tears in our eyes when we pulled away!

We pushed as far as we could and made it all the way to Erie Pennsylvania. We took a short drive to the state park on Lake Erie where the sun was getting ready to set. 

Almost hard to tell the difference between one of the Great Lakes and the ocean! 

On Friday we only had 4 hours to drive and arrived home a little before noon. 

It's nice to finally be able to picture where Chris lives and see the things he's been telling us about for the past 3 years. I miss him already but he promises to come home (I still consider Michigan  his home) as soon as he can! 

Until the next time.