honeymoon - day 9

well not only have i fallen way behind on the honeymoon blogging, but i think it's a safe bet to say they are going to get less interesting as the details start to fade away. anyway, today we went to mt. washington. we decided to drive up instead of taking the cog train because laura is sorta afraid of heights and thought that heading up a mountain at 45 degrees would be upsetting. how this is better than driving up a road that is not quite wide enough for two cars, 6000ft in the air with no guard rail is better, i'm not sure, but that's what the wife wanted so that's what the wife got. mt. washington is known for it's erratic weather and it did not dissapoint. clouds rolled in and out all day and the winds at the top of the mountain were sustained at about 40mph. looking down on clouds is an odd sensation. the peak is also above the treeline which is interesting. as you go up, the trees get smaller and smaller to the point where they look like mini christmas trees but can still be hundreds of years old, and then they eventually disappear altogether and there's nothing but rocks and brown grass.




on our way back down from the peak, we stopped to do a little hiking on the appalachian trail with runs from maine to georgia. it turned out to be more like an aisle of randomly strewn large rocks than what i would normally consider a trail and so we didn't make it too far before it started getting dark and we had to turn around. a photo of the so-called "trail" is below.



we had heard that there are moose in the area and apparently tend to mess up peoples car's pretty bad. i have a friend who has hit (or narrowly missed) deer with his car on several different occasions. he should be glad he does not live in moose country, since a large moose can weigh about 1600lbs as opposed to the deer he has weigh maybe 1/10th of that. fortunately, or unfortunately, we didn't get to see any.