Seacoast of New Hampshire Day Trip

My wife, Monika, and I decided after I got out of work on Sunday we’d take a drive along the coast of New Hampshire. We had a Nor’easter the week before so we decided to try and head up route 1A to check out the damage. We first stopped off at our usual campground at Salisbury State Beach Park in Salisbury, MA.

We were quite surprised because we saw a bunch of campers there. It really was a very nice weekend here, temps were in the 70’s to low 80’s.

We left there and noticed the clouds were rolling in and the temperature had dropped about 10 degrees as we headed north on 1A towards Hampton.

We were pondering what to have for dinner when we drove by our new favorite take out seafood place. I made a quick U turn. Ceal’s Clam Stand was built in 1948 and it’s a family owned restaurant that serves the best seafood chowder we have ever had. You can literally stick your spoon in the cup and it will stand up straight. Large chunks of clams, scallops and lobster meat make up a great portion of this delicious chowder.

My favorite is clam chowder but once you taste this it will make you change too Ceals seafood chowder. Well, wouldn’t you know it was about 4:30 when we arrived and they said, because they are only open on the weekends, they had sold out. We were bummed and opted for the Scallop Plate. Delicious as usual.

After we ate we headed to Hampton beach where we encountered the usual traffic jams of people heading home.

We then followed 1A north up into Rye and we could see some of the aftermath of last weeks storm. We approached North Hampton and I could see the waves crashing over the seawall so we decided to pull over and take a peek. Belows video is a little of what we saw. It was also very chilly as the wind was making it BBBRRR

North Beach at Hampton, NH on VimeoWe left and then headed up to Rye Beach and saw a pair of beautiful Swans that were swimming around across the street from the ocean.

Swans at Rye Beach New Hampshire on VimeoAs we headed back home we noticed the temps were back on the rise. Ten degrees difference from home to the beach. I am sure we will take a trip out there next week.

14 Martin Ave. Salem, New Hampshire

This is a new listing we have for sale in Salem. It is on a dead end road and go to our Featured Properties for more information.

14 Martin Ave. Salem, NH on Vimeo

Trying to establish a poll on Wordpress

I read a post from Jeff Turner who recommeded a website that allows you to insert a poll on your blog or website. He says it works really better than all the other one’s he has tried. I was wondering if it worked on wordpress so I am trying it here and I will let him know.

April Snowstorm

The title tells it all. It is April 5th and I should have been playing golf yesterday. Chilly to say the least, supposed to be below normal temps thru next week. Typical New England weather you just never know.

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Myrtle Beach, SC Golf and Fun in the Sun

On Tuesday March 27th Monika and I jumped in our motor home and headed to Myrtle Beach, SC for a little R & R.

Monika taught an agency class for the North Country Board of REALTORS in the morning so we headed out of Hampstead at 3:20 PM. The drive south was pretty much uneventful. A traffic jam in Hartford set us back about a half hour. Once we hit the New Jersey Turnpike we just kept going until 10:20 PM when we decided to pull over and rest at a service area. Nestled in between a couple of 18 wheelers with their diesels running all night and trucks entering and exiting the service area we caught a few hours of sleep.

We rolled out at 5:25 AM and got jammed up in Baltimore and Washington DC traffic. We were hoping to be able to get thru there with little traffic but not to happen this trip. We finally crossed the Virginia border at 9:30 AM and kept rolling until we needed fuel at Exit 106 in North Carolina. We wend just about 800 miles and filled up with 75 gallons of diesel at 2.559 we averaged about 10.1 miles per gallon not towing. That was a good feeling as I kept the cruise control on 62 MPH.

I had a little hiccup when I cancelled cruise control and started it again. The warning light came on and I was able to pull in a rest area and while slowing to stop the light went out. I called our friends Bill and Nada Marth who were waiting for us at Myrtle Beach to see if he might know why it happened. He mentioned the transmision got confused and warned me. No problem he said. OK, that was a half hour delay. Off to Myrtle Beach we go. That was at 1:00 PM.

We reached exit 81 on route 95 hoping we were a couple of hours away but no it would be a lot longer than anticipated. One mistake we made was when we got to Myrtle Beach we were on route 17 and we were supposed to hook up with route 544. We were told to bypass business 17 and stay on 17. Oh well, we screwed up and crawled into South Myrtle Beach at 6:30 PM. I was exhausted after driving 13 hours.

We set up camp and Bill and Nada had cooked dinner for us and after a few drinks we were well rested.