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January 1998

New Hampshire - Waterville Valley

David Aaronson
2005-09-23 22:51:02

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Hampshire, or alternatively you can sit in a hot tub with every teenager in northern New Hampshire. We chose to do neither of these things, opting instead to sit in the hotel pub and play darts and Jenga (we only lost one piece behind the bar) and listen to local bands do bad covers of Credence Clearwater Revival songs (and worse covers of Dave Matthews). It was a comfy, mellow pub with a quiet and tolerant bartender.

There's not much in the immediate vicinity of Waterville Valley. However, we did journey to nearby Loon Mountain one night (in driving snow) to partake in snow tubing. Unfortunately we have no pictures as not many cameras would've survived the experience of bouncing uncontrollably down an icy slope on an inner tube. Besides, the better picture would've been of one of the people who were unable to jump on top of a stationary inner tube and landed on their face in the snow instead. Also relatively nearby is the state capitol in Concord (shown here) which really is the only thing of any interest in Concord as far as we could tell. The drivers of Concord do however get a thumbs up for not running over David as he took this picture.

And now we shall end this trip with a small history lesson. As we all know by now, way back in 1770-something a couple of frisky farmers with guns shot at some British soldiers and now we have our own currency. Those shots were fired here (in this picture), on the Lexington green (it is apparently green during other seasons), in front of the old and picturesque Lexington church. The little gray monument lists all the "Americans" who died in the battle (there were about seventeen or six or twelve or some fairly low number). We sincerely hope everyone appreciates this picture since we had to trek out into several feet of snow to take it. There's a nice Minuteman statue at the other end of the green, but we would've been killed in traffic had we tried to take a picture of it. Sorry.

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