DAY #5: Good news for people who love good news!

Today we mostly played Pass the Pigs at Dunkin’ Donuts and held our breath for 7 hours while Allison went into surgery.  

The outcome…it wasn’t the transmission!  Thank you thank you!  It was, however, the front right wheel bearing that was only one or two turns from popping right off and what seemed like a hundred other things that needed a little love.  We didn’t care, we were freeeeee!

We decided for Allison’s sake to cut out Mt. Washington, also in order to get the hell out of New Hampshire a little bit sooner.  We’ll be back someday to try again.  We did end up taking the Kacamangus highway through the white mountains and it was so beautiful.  I think it was NH saying sorry for all the trouble.  Forgiven!

It started to rain before we got to a campsite so we stayed in a motel in Lincoln.  It was a cute place, the owner was from Quebec and the bed came with one of these:

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We watched Halloweentown (love it!) and had a drab looking picnic with leftovers  and pieces of things we’d collected along the way.  Maybe it was because we were so hungry at this point, but that mac n’ cheese was the best of  my life!