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HAPPINESS, is to have everything…you need.
NOT the need to have everything.
If Joy is in the JOURNEY; Then Reward is in the destination.
09.01.21-arrive in Rochester, MA
We’re staying at the Gateway RVP in Rochester which is at the northern tip of Cape Cod, which is a Thousand Trails Property.
As usual the Thousand Trails Campgrounds come at no charge to us and we can stay up to 3-weeks depending on the season. We’ve opted to stay here for the full 3-weeks. It does not sound like such a big deal but it translates to a $1500.00 savings for us. Many things to do here but my primary reasons were to visit my father’s grave and hopefully get together with my son Mike; he said he’d like to do a cook-out! Some of the items on our todo list: revisit Brockton, visit Cardinal Spellman HS, eat at McMenamy’s Fish Restaurant, Mike’s B-day, Battleship Massachusetts, Beaches of Cape Cod and do a drive-thru down and around lower Cape Cod.
09.17.2021- This is a true RV Park.
It’s deeply treed, no paved roads, little internet and no satellite. Other than all that it’s a great place to camp. Rain happens just about every third day and with it a pond arises at the front of our coach and takes about 3 days for it to go away.
Nothing is close by but the real estate here is awesome. It’s nice to see how the upper 5-percenters live. One item I have to deal with is my inability to install any new pictures. Somehow my computer has decided to attach a “copy-protected” label on all my images. I will try to deal with this at Best Buy in Connecticut.
We did visit Brockton, much smaller than I recall as a youngster; what else is new. We did visit my father’s grave, took awhile to find it in the beginning. Driving into Brockton we drove by McMenamy’s Fish Restaurant. Ann McMenamy attended CSHS with me, she was even in my homeroom for a year, but I doubt we ever spoke. She had her own little group of friends as did I. On our way out of town we decided to have lunch at her family’s restaurant. Her family still owned the venue her brother was working that day behind the counter. He told us that at one time they used to have 18 restaurants. Ann, however had been fighting a sickness for the last eight-months and she passed away last month in August
Did remember Mike’s birthday. He works at MIT and their facility is reopening for the new school year during our stay. Our barbecue at his house won’t happen, but possibly during our stay in Conn. he’ll try to visit. Back in my working day I would call his work-life ” A Cats in the Cradle” lifestyle, make me thankful to be retired.
Did not get to experience the Battleship Massachusetts, maybe next time here. But we did take a couple of hours to view the local beeches and on another day we drove south all the way to Chatham, MA but more on that in a Chatham Blog.
For a 3-week stay it was very relaxing. In a couple of days, next Monday the 20th, we’ll pack up and travel to Connecticut…talk to you then.