Day Zero

Day Zero... Moving day. We packed up and were trying to head out to CT by around noon. It was all going well until we ran down the battery on one of the cars by leaving the doors open while loading. *sigh*. Once the city-folk (us) figured out that "non-painted metal" was absolutely critical for jump starting to work we were able to head out. It ended up being more like 3:00...

So, part of the trip involved camping in CT (halfway to NH) as sort of a semi-vacation-during-move. Our 1986 VW Camper van is awesome. Totally love it. Great car. Not really a highway cruiser though. I was really only able to do about 60 on the highway consistently and there's no cruise control. It was not bad. It's a good car and the seat is more comfortable than most cars but it's also 27 years old and was lacking a bit in power.

The slowness of the van and the standard stops needed when traveling with two kids put us into our campsite at 10:00pm... which was not very fun. Thankfully my family is awesome and we got set up quickly and we got ourselves to sleep quickly.

The next day dawned chilly, but beautiful. It's hard to describe how relaxing it is waking with your head next to a screen looking out at nature with only birds and the babbling brook as the sounds. It was so incredibly peaceful. We dug ourselves out of the blankets and boiled up some water in our new biolite stove (more on this later) and set about relaxing.

We knew that "work" started the next day so we really just spent the day relaxing. The kids played in the river a lot and we goofed around on the playground. The place was completely empty during the week and we basically had it to ourselves.

We rounded off the day by having my father join us for supper. The kids played around with him and we avoided talking about tomorrow.

I cannot more highly recommend the Charlie Brown Campground in CT. We'll be staying there whenever we go down to the site.