New England Trip

Today was a long travel day (about 350 miles) from Bar Harbor to Cape Cod.  We had been warned about the Friday afternoon traffic heading from Boston to the Cape so we left the Bar Harbor campground promptly at 7:00 am.  Despite arriving in Boston at around 1:30 pm, we ran into very slow traffic on I-95 on the west side of the city.  Eventually, we got around the city and to the Cape Cod (Brewster) campground of Sweetwater Forest at 3:30 pm.

Some campgrounds have a lot of rules and this is one of them.  There are 10 rules about fire:

1.                       You must build your fire in the fire ring

2.                       You must use firewood in the fire ring (no charcoal or fireplace logs)

3.                       You may not use lighter fluid to light your fire

4.                       Your flames may not rise more than 24”

5.                       You must have a container of water handy

6.                       You may not leave your fire unattended

7.                       You must put your fire out by 11:30 pm

8.                       If you leave trash in your fire ring, you will be charged $15

9.                       If you move your fire ring, you will be charged $25

10.                  If you steal your fire ring, you will be charged $100

In the restroom, there is a sign asking that one not yell at the staff cleaning the restroom.  The restrooms are not very clean so some yelling might have occurred.

We assume that every rule has a story.  Once we stayed in a campground near Mobile, Al that banned explosives.  We have always wondered about that story.