Sunday, July 30, 2017

Gateway to Cape Cod






We stayed here for 4 nights from July7 - 11.  This is a Thousand Trails Encore Campground which allows us a 30% discount from their rack rate of $79 per night.   We paid $53 per night for 4 nights which included our RPI discount.   We had full hookups with 50 amp electric, water, and sewer.  We needed full hookups as we needed to wash clothes.  This park is located in Rochester, Ma. Just north of the bridge which enters the Cape.  We had rain the first night which  left big puddles on the interior dirt roads and we had to navigate a five foot puddle 3 or 4 inches deep to enter our coach.  There was a swimming pool and a band played music one night we were there.  The entrance is gate guarded and unattended so you communicate via ham radio to enter park.  The speaker system needs to be replaced as you cannot understand them very well.  When you finally enter the park, there is no dedicated parking place for check in so I blocked a road while I checked in.  It appeared that many full timers living in the park.  Some 3 weeks in one week out and some either owned or leased sites.  I think this park is way too expensive and there is no reason to allow these big pot holes throughout the park and in the sites to exist.  A quick fix would be to drop a few loads of rock in each hole where the water settles.  I rate this park P**.
We attended a family reunion Kingston State Park in New Hampshire.  We visited family at Millie’s house in Plymouth, Massachusetts and visited friends Carol and Steve Mckenna who treated us to a lobster dinner and more clams on the half shell at the Red Parrot, a restaurant overlooking the ocean in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts.  I think this is the same building, although re-purposed, where I met Aggie 49 years ago.  It was then called the Surf and had several bands playing back to back.

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