Date: 2012-08-13
From: Dorchester Road

To: Etna - Hanover Road
Miles today: 13.7

After breakfast in our hotel, we drove to the start spot and then I returned to the room. I had tried to call Nancy to see if she needed anything. She was trying to find the train schedule so I asked the man at the front desk to look it up and print it off and he did. I drove into Hanover and met Nancy and Tim at the Hanover Inn where they are staying tonight. We decided to drive to the train station and see what it was like. While Tim finished the laundry, Nancy and I drove to the train station, which is not manned, to see where it was and what it was like. We found it in downtown White River Junction. Next stop was the post office but it did not have a window and I wanted to mail a package so asked a lady on the street about a full service post office. We went there, got my package mailed off and when I did a GPS on my hotel discovered that I was 900 feet from it! We gathered up Tim and walked across the street to the cafe for lunch. Back to the Hanover Inn with a stop at the Co-op. They had Rainier Cherries so bought some for SOS since they are his favorite. I dropped off Tim and Nancy and drove back to my room for a few hours. Started another hat with a new (for me) pattern...then off to get SOS. And THAT is where the trouble started!! I was trying to get Edith Chloe (the GPS) to let me skip the interstate that she wanted me to drive on...thanks to my daughter, Megan...I now know how that works...except it didn't this time. Next thing I knew I had missed the first turn and was on the second when I looked down at the GPS and my mileage to pick up SOS had jumped from 8+ miles to 27 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even with my lack of directional ability, I KNEW that something was wrong...I was going the wrong direction and was on an interstate with NO exits for 9 miles...and I was already going to be late...SO...what to do. (If any of my kids are reading this..stop now!) Okay,for the rest of you,... so I decided to do an illegal U-turn at one of those cross overs to the other side that say... don't do this...so I could be going the right direction again... Here came a cross over spot and there was no traffic on my side at that time so I did a left turn onto the cross over and had to stop because of traffic coming the other way. AND WHAT WAS THE FIRST CAR TO COME BY BUT A SHERRIF CAR!!! That did not help my nerves as I was sure he was going to go ahead and be waiting to stop me down the road. With trepidation, I pulled onto the interstate going the right direction and the sherrif had disappeared...thank you, GOD! (And I did!) ...he never reappeared! I got to where the pick up spot was supposed to be and no SOS. He had called when I was 2 miles away and said he was there. I called him (thank goodness there was service here because earlier there wasn't) and we tried to figure out where each of us was located. SOS was telling me to drive west which I would have been glad to do if I only knew where west was! Finally we figured it out and I found him in the cemetery at the edge of town. We were glad to see each other (that is an understatement!!!) I asked him to drive back...I usually do but I just wanted to ride and not think anymore today..:-) Shower, dinner at a diner, planning tomorrow, and off to sleep completed the day. Road Name of the Day: SHOE STRAP ROAD I picked this because I noticed yesterday that you can see where my shoe straps were on my feet...the rest is tanned.