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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Travel Day - Salisbury Beach

July 11, 2010
Salisbury Beach, MA

We were up early (OK, not too early) and ready to roll by 10:00. After a nice breakfast, we were actually on the road right around 11:00, just on schedule. We had an easy driving day, covering 151 miles in just over 3 hours, heading for Salisbury Beach, MA. This little beach town (duh!) is in the extreme northeast corner of Massachusetts; we're parked about 2 miles from the New Hampshire border. A relatively small park at just 50 sites, it's a little tight but we were soon parked in the only pull-thru site in the park.

For a change, we didn't have a dinner plan. Strange! Since we were still full from breakfast (and dinner the night before - and the whole month we spent in CT), we decided to make a quick trip to Hampton Beach and grab some food on "the strip". Hampton Beach is kind of like Atlantic City without the boardwalk: a one-mile one-way strip along the beach, with all sorts of tourist-trap shops that have been there for years. It's like a town that time forgot in some ways. On the other hand, it can be predictable and comfortable, no matter how long between visits. This was good, since Geri had a hankering for fried clam strips from a certain shop and I was happy with an order of "boardwalk fries" and a "Fried Doe" (dough) from Blink's (butter and sugar, please). Oh, yeah; that's the good stuff.

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