Massachusetts, Sturbridge - Thursday, June 11, 2015 - Sturbridge RV Resort

We are at Sturbridge RV Resort overnight.  This is one of the Thousand Oaks parks and we could use our Passport America discount so the rate was $25 for full hook ups for the night.  A decent park, not one I would want to stay at for an extended period of time, but it works well for overnight.  A huge pine tree keeps us from having TV reception this evening and our hot spot isn’t working very well either so I probably won’t get this post published tonight.

 

 

Goodyear from Wilkes Barre, PA got to us last night around 6:30 with our two new tag axle tires.  Greg got so fed up with the Good Sam tire road service people this time that he told them to forget it he would make arrangements for tires himself.  The ordeals he had with the road service are just too lengthy to go into.  Good Sam outsources at least the tire service part of their road service.  Let’s just say the five ladies Greg talked to in Missouri weren’t much help to us in Pennsylvania.

The owners of Tri State RV Park are just the nicest people and the walks along the Delaware River were great, but we sure were glad to be able to move on – we were up and out of there by 7:30 this morning.

We only had to go across the river and we were in New York and experiencing some really rough roads.

 

 

New York does have a couple of idea I really like.  One is “text stops”, this one happens to be a full-fledged rest area but every few miles there is at least a place for people to pull over and text if they have to – at least on I-84 where we were at.

 

 

Lots of nice scenery.  The weather was overcast and the roads were bumpy so a lot of the pictures I took didn’t turn out too good as we were moving.

 

 

 

 

Some of the scenery wasn’t so nice.

 

 

The Newburgh-Beacon Bridge was getting some repair work and backing up traffic.  We did find out that our EZ-Pass transponder works, this is the first opportunity we have had to try it.

 

 

Another thing New York does that makes sense to me is to mark the exits N or S for north or south and E or W for east and west, rather than A and B.  What doesn’t make sense is that exit 16 is probably mile marker 50 something.

Just about missed Connecticut’s welcome sign.

 

 

Still nice scenery, I noticed that there were very few billboards and those were near exits.

All of the noise barriers we saw on our trip through Connecticut were made of wood – all of them looked just alike.

I sure was happy to see these guys.  We ordered the last four new tires we need from them well over a week ago.  We kept having to put off our arrival time here because we were having trouble getting the tires we needed in Pennsylvania.  One of the guys told us that someone called on Monday begging for one of the tires, thank goodness he had faith we were going to make it and told them “no”.

Entering Massachusetts - since we are staying the night here we’ll be able to put another state on our map of “states where we have stayed”.

The campground here has a pretty lake.

 

 

And, it has something no other campground has had – a kissing bridge J.

 

 

Looks like a nice playground for the kids.

We didn’t take advantage of the indoor pool but it looked good.

The hot tub was really moving.  I’m not sure I could sit in it without being swept off the seat.

Not much in the way of flowers and landscaping right now, but this park is just getting their season going.  This bush, however, was beautiful.

View of the lake from the General Store.  The store isn’t open yet, will open on the 13^th.

Just wanted to show off my anniversary present – our sixth is coming up in a couple of days.  I’ve never received an anniversary present quite so expensive.  I’m not sure anniversary number 6 is the “tire” anniversary for everyone, but it is for us this year.  He hinted this evening that he might even throw in a couple of coach batteries – I’m just overwhelmed J.