Foxboro, Massachusetts

We left Florida, NY, and it's more well known neighbor, New York City, this morning about 10 heading north and east toward Boston. Wonder of wonders, we made it! 227 miles and about 6 hours due to heavy traffic and really crummy roads, we pulled into Normandy Farms Campground about 30 miles south of Boston. During our trip we passed from New York state to Connecticut, and then into Massachusetts.

Our route took us to I 84, across the Hudson River ($12.50 toll), and past the villages of Fishkill and East Fishkill. 84 crosses into Connecticut near Danbury, goes through Hartford, and crosses into Massachusetts just south of Worcester. Near Sturbridge we merged with I 90, the Massachusetts Turnpike until we got to I 495 where we turned south to Foxboro, just a hop and a jump from the northeast corner of Rhode Island.

Normandy Farms Campground is an upscale park with a huge number of campsites (upscale due to the many scheduled activities, the gated entry/exit, and the almost $70 a night rate). We are in site 905 with nice shade and grass. The parking area of the site is gravel, only moderately out of level, and plenty long enough for our class A and two more tow cars if we had that many. The water pressure is above average (regulator recommended), but the wifi is next to useless. It's difficult to connect to the Tengonet system, and the bandwidth is far too narrow for the number of campers here. We've come to realize that our satellite system will not work on the east coast, so it's fortunate that the park has an adequate cable tv system.

So, here we are, ready to lay waste to Boston! We have a laundry list of things to do and places to see, so we'll report back to see how that all works out.