Brrrr! It was 42 degrees and cloudy this morning. The weatherman promised partly cloudy skies today, but it doesn't look like he's going to be right. We borrowed another electric heater from George and Carol last night and it helped keep us warm, but it was still cool in the trailer when I got up this morning.
Our RV park is called Notch View RV Park, and it is aptly named. We are on the upper edge of a huge valley that leads to Dicksville Notch. You can see for miles from our campsite and it would be much prettier if the sun would only come out. Low lying clouds and drizzle sure doesn't help the view. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Terri and Carol prepared sack lunches for all of our group for today since we were doing a ride share to visit the sites. Earl and Eunice asked us to ride with them today. We left the campground and headed for the notch - Dicksville Notch that is.
Our drive was along a winding and sometimes steep road that paralleled a river. Beautiful golds, reds, and yellows were everywhere with tall deep green pine trees mixed in. What a beautiful sight. We drove about 10 miles to a pullout by a large lake. On the other side of the lake was a big hotel - The Balsams Hotel
. This is the spot where the 25 residents of Dicksville Notch vote right after midnight on days of presidential elections, thereby becoming the first to vote in the nation. 
They have done so since 1920. The hotel is now closed and when we drove over to it we noticed that it was in pretty bad shape. Apparently the new owner wants to modernize the appearance of the hotel, and the local preservationists want it to stay the way it was. Now there's a stalemate as to what will become of the hotel.
We drove another 10 miles to the little town of Errol and visited the L L Cote Sporting Goods store. They are famous is this part of the country. We were told in our travel briefing that our trainride on Friday to Mt. Washington would be cold, and on the weather this morning they said it was 0 degrees with 70 mph winds today on Mt. Washington. The heaviest thing I brought on this trip was a sweatshirt and my Adventure Caravan jacket, so we decided to make a purchase. I found a heavy jacket with a hood for $20 and a hooded sweatshirt for $30. Jenna got a sweatshirt too. We still need to find long underwear and gloves.
It was 44 degrees when we left Errol so we decided that a picnic was out of the questions. We returned to the park and had lunch in the trailer. Now we are at the laundry in Town washing clothes. Tonight we are going out to dinner with a bunch from the caravan. We haven't cooked more that 2 or 3 times since this adventure began. Either the caravan feeds us or we go out to eat!
The rest of this post will be more pictures of the beautiful foliage from this morning. Until next time, Happy Trails.
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