We took the Interstate north and stopped at the Mass. Welcome Center just south of Boston. We were lucky as they had just reopened the month before after having been closed all of last year. Even luckier they had early hours - opened at 7AM - we arrived at about 7:45. The JFK Museum opened at 9AM so off we went and arrived just after opening. We spent about 2 hours touring the exhibits. There is a 20 minutes film before you enter the 21 exhibits so it doesn't take that long to do the entire museum. We have been to the Clinton and Eisenhower Museums and found this probably had the least amount of material but certainly had the most beautiful setting. It is on a point of land overlooking Boston Harbor. The Clinton library had the most information but so far the Eisenhower Museum was probably just about the right size.
We left the museum and headed north, glad that it was a Sunday so traffic was no worse. We decided if we ever visited Boston again we probably would not drive and if we did it would have to be a Sunday!
We stopped for lunch at the New Hampshire Welcome Center. New Hampshire has about 20 miles of seacoast and everyone from three states was there today. If you've been to Myrtle Beach at Easter or driven the main drag at Grand Bend on a summer weekend that's what the seashore road through New Hampshire is like - 20 miles of traffic congestion.
We crossed the border into Maine and stopped for the night at Wells Maine - not on the beach but on Route 1. We had our most expensive campsite of the trip so far at $34.24 for the night. We had been on the road for a week so this was also laundry night - $1.75 to wash and $1.75 to dry.
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