Janet Henry and I have reconnected to travel together for a while. We arrived in Lebanon, NH and there is a hint of color in the foliage!
Something I am not doing a good job on is to share interactions with the people I meet during my travels. In Littleton, NH I went to an Applebee's for dinner. I parked at the same time as two ladies and we walked in together. When the hostess asked if there were three for dinner, we all looked at each other and I asked if they were inviting me to sit with them. They looked shocked, answered yes!
I have learned long ago that people want to talk about themselves and are not interested in my travels so I began asking them about their hometown, what do people do during the winter here? Where are good places to see?
Now they begin to open up and I learned that they have lived here all of their lives, never been farther than the state of New Hampshire. I pointed out some of the pictures on the walls and they were not aware that they were about this town! Now we all began to look around and they told me a few things about places in the pictures. So nice to meet some of the locals, get them to relax and share some things about their home town. Did you know that the woman who wrote the book Polyanna was born here?
Multiple bike rides along rail trails is beginning to look different with the trees changing colors.
A hike down a gorge to the river.
Hard for distance photo's to show the color.
