Stateline has a wonderful looking pool in an unusual design and I liked that they play music from the radio at the pool until closing. The restrooms were okay. It is only the second time in my travels that I have had not full sewer but rather a grey water only hookup which requires a garden hose and special holding tank cap. Better than nothing. Luckily, I picked those up at the last one in Michigan. 🙂 They have a lake though it is for fishing or row boating only. The sites are poorly signed and my site definitely did not match the map they provided so I had to get them to send someone down to show me how I was supposed to park my rig. Ah well, as a C2C park it was cheap to stay there and close enough to what I wanted to see in Groton, CT.
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Hallelujah! I started my trek back to civilization and managed to grab a couple states easily for my RV travel map. Rhode Island is easy to drive through with great scenery, good roads, and it is not very big. It was an easy hop through it to Connecticutt. I stayed at Stateline Camping Resort which really is on the state line between Rhode Island and Connecticutt. It is a C2C park and very nice. I warn you, as soon as you see the “Welcome to Connecticutt” sign on the right coming east on the 101, look to the left because it is right there! I am told that if you play on their playground, you are actually in Rhode Island though the park in in Connecticutt. LOL. I had a little fun walking back and forth between the two state “Welcome” signs one evening. Hey, I had to exercise anyway.
 Comments are closed  Campgrounds/RV Parks, Coast to Coast, Lifestyle  Killingly, Nautilus, New London, Stateline, submarine Coming through lower Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts on I95 requires a LOT of change or an EZPass. They absolutely love their toll roads. Thank goodness I had picked up some extra cash before starting the trek down from Maine. I had little of my $30 left when I finally got past the tolls.
I found the coastal area of Massachusetts to be rather expensive for camping and you need reservations far in advance to catch the popular places like Salisbury, Cape Cod, and Martha’s Vineyard. I ended up staying in Wompatuck and Massasoit State Parks below Boston. Wompatuck used to be a munitions storage facility for the Navy with numerous bunkers built into the forest and hidden. One bunker still stands though you can only see the outside of it and it is well hidden. I only found it because there is a geocache there and in many other places in the park. The park is very large with lots of camping spaces and something always available for the night. I liked the geocaching there but there are so many trees that you can’t see the sky so it is rather depressing at times. They need to prune it out a bit and the back camping areas are overgrown so driving can be an adventure. The restrooms are also in serious need of repair. You can get a shower but don’t expect a stream. It is more like a dribble from the shower head. Be sure to carry lots of water on board too since they supply electricity but no water at the sites other than a communal fixture here and there. Forget about getting satellite TV there through all those trees but I was getting a couple of local stations through the air. Wompatuck puts you close enough to tour Boston and Plymouth if you have a mind to. I didn’t get around to them due to personal business I had to take care of. Comments are closed Campgrounds/RV Parks, Lifestyle Battleship Cove, Massasoit, Myles Standish, Wompatuck After hundreds of years, Salem is still best known for it’s infamous witch trials in the 1600s. Many, many tourists go every year to hear about a time of religious hysteria when hundreds were jailed and 19 were killed having been accused of being witches. Several young girls of the town began it with their weird convulsions, twitching, and accusations of evil sorcery. No one knows why they did it, perhaps not even they. The leader of the girls did eventually stand up in church years later and apologize. In the 1950s, a movement got most of the imprisoned “witches” exonerated. It was not until the 2000s however when the last few names were cleared of all wrong by the governor.
18 were hung including those who dared to stand against the witch trials. 1 was pressed to death under a board upon which were piled boulders to force him to confess since he refused to speak on his own behalf. He knew if he was convicted, all his lands and property would be taken from his family. Better to die before a sham trial that would surely find him guilty as it had all the other innocents. It is said that before his chest was crushed, he cursed the sheriff and ever since then every sheriff has had to leave office due to death by heart attack or issues with their hearts. Once spectral evidence (testimony of dreams, twitching in court, etc.) was banned, the trials petered out for lack of true evidence. There is much more to Salem than just witches, however. It was a major seaport in its time with much wealth being made in shipping. The Parker brothers of the gaming company fame grew up in Salem. Author Nathanial Hawthorne wrote several of his books here including “The House of Seven Gables” and “The Scarlett Letter”. He didn’t particularly like living in Salem and left once he got payment for the latter. Perhaps it was still too puritanical then for him.
No trip to New England would truly be complete without a visit to the Fishermen’s Memorial in Gloucester, MA to pay homage. For centuries man has survived and died with fishing. It is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world and yet men and boys still go off to sea. For many generations of New England families, this way of life is all they know. It is not uncommon for grandfathers, fathers, uncles, and sons to crew together. A look at the names listed on the memorial plaques of those lost at sea each year shows particular names over and over again such as the MacDonalds. I also found one lost sailor with my last name. Could be a relative. It is good these men will not be forgotten.
For you fans of Bewitched, I first saw the memorial in an episode of Bewitched where Samantha had to attend a witches conference in Salem. In that episode, the fisherman came alive. The town of Gloucester is very old and a typical fishing village. The streets are very narrow with typical old multilevel beach houses pressed in closely to each other. A great many of the houses have verandas to look out to sea and watch for the men returning home. The streets are not necessarily perpendicular or parallel which can make driving there “interesting”. A roundabout leads into town. I’m getting to like those after traversing several of them now.
The RV parks in the area are fairly expensive so I only stayed a few days at Cape Ann Camp Site. This is a good place to stay to catch both Gloucester and Salem. More pics click here. |
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