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Leaving the North Country (& Family) Behind ~ 11/28 2011


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New Hampshire becomes Massachusetts becomes Connecticut becomes New York becomes Pennsylvania.

Leafless white birch, pine green foliage on display, dead-brown-leafed hangers-on amid the substantial leavings of an early winter snow melting away in some freakishly warm late November weather in northern New Hampshire.

North Country two lane bi-ways give way to down-state multi-lane highways.

Facebook sharings.

Phone calls.

The goodbye breakfast.

Hugs and kisses.

 

Rick Santorum, he of the self-proclaimed family of seven ages 3 to 20, and New Hampshire’s retail hand-shake Republican primary politics intrudes on the moment.

One guesses Catholic family the other guesses multiple marriages.

Neither guess gets asked nor verified.

 

Iced-up water yields to open moving water.

Granitic road cuts become the basaltic columns of the Hudson River Valley.

‘Can’t Get There From Here’ north-south roads with east-west roads being few, far between and steep predominate the North Country.

Quickly left behind.

Notches become Water Gaps.

New Hampshire becomes Massachusetts becomes Connecticut becomes New York becomes Pennsylvania.

The journey begun.

 11/28 & 29 2011

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Posted by bigdawg on November 30, 2011

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