Landmark Journey 2015: May 22 Salem Massachusets

After 5 days in our most beautiful spot in Cape Cod we made our way to Boston; finding the closest RV park about 25 minutes North in a town called Salem. I had called 4 days prior to book this, or at least I thought I had :(. We pulled into Winter Island RV Park around 1 PM and promptly went inside the office to let them know WE ARE HERE!! Well I knew there was something wrong when the girl couldn't find my parking pass and documents. in Hindsight all other parks send an email as confirmation; this one didn't. So the moral is from now on I be more diligent in getting this. So she looks in the computer and very convincingly says "oh we have you booked for next weekend!!". Now we have a problem Houston! She tries to get a hold of the manager, no luck. So we're outside wondering what to do; drive north and forget Boston? Start calling RV parks around the area? I striked up a conversation with another rv'er already in the park; he made it clear: you wont find a park within 4 hours of here due to the Memorial Day long weekend! The manager finally pulled up; he checked the computer again to see if maybe there was something open; nope. He offered us only one option; park beside the office which had power and water; he would reduce the rate from the waterfront spot we thought we had at $45/night to this for $20. We realized this park was all about location location location, so we agreed. Reminded us a bit of NYC but there we paid in excess of $80/night.
After parking and hooking up we grabbed the bikes and set out to downtown Salem, another older village with this time tons of restaurants, a nice harbor and quaint little subdivisions with many older well kept homes. Rather than driving tomorrow into Boston, we booked a fast ferry to the harbor for the morning. After exploring some more on our bikes the quaint areas around Salem, we settled for a drink on our concrete patio.
Note; the roads are poor it seems around big cities. Through Boston we gave our 5th wheel another workout; some dishes ended up in different spots.
Note; Miss Garmin has given us some questionable routes in some areas. Today she led us through some very narrow and low overhanging branches; no marks on the AC unit so I am lower than I originally measured. I was also concerned a bit when we got close to the downtown core of Boston there were a number of signs indicating 13' 9"clearance in the main tunnel under Boston. We had gone through a low bridge listed at 13' 6" (the time I went 10 MPH and grabbed my steering wheel very hard!) and we made it through there so I figured we were good (which we were :))

enjoying a fire in Sandwich Cape Cod; don't worry, Caroline is very content as she got a what we thought dead fire going agan