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Mt Washington - Final Day

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We stayed at the Christmas Farm Inn and Spa last night.   Aaron these two pics are for you. I’ve never seen a skeleton and pumpkins on a fire truck and they’re hiring 😁.  The skeleton on top of the truck is really hard to see.  Leaving Jackson I walked across the bridge so I could get some photos of the river. It seems like all the rivers we’ve seen have been really low.  We stopped for breakfast at a little cafe.  It was a lot of food.  Next stop was a visitor center to get a map of New Hampshire.  We drove up to Mount Washington, chug chug chugging all the way up in our little rental car.  You can take a cog train up if you don’t want to drive on the narrow road with sheer drop offs. Kim is checking out the engine. The following is a long story but very interesting if you want to know about the cog.  A nagging case of indigestion led to one of the greatest achievements of the Industrial Age In 1857, not long after relocating to the Boston ...