If it's Sunday this must be New Hampshire

What a week! We have crossed 14 states in the past week, and lost my Mom in Scranton PA. Well, we know where she is, but she's not with us in NH. We pulled into Scranton Saturday evening, I was driving the motorhome. Just after I came off the highway toward our hotel, the front of the motorhome started smoking. At first I thought it was the car in front of us, but then I realized it was us! I couldn't tell where the smoke was coming from, and we were within a mile of the hotel, but I got a powerful feeling that I had to pull over immediately. I found an empty parking lot and drove off the road and up as far as I could, by then the vehicle was smoking really bad. Mom said "take your purses, in case this thing starts on fire" We jumped out of the cab, the whole front smoking like crazy, and saw fluid pouring onto the ground. It was the transmission, and we aren't sure if it was because we had the car dolly on and were pulling up and down a lot of hills coming into Scranton, or the transmission was problematic before. There was some whining in the motorhome even before we left Cottonwood, but I'm sure dragging a dolly didn't help.

Mom found a tow truck, and amazingly they were just a mile or two away. I called Uhaul, and a young man came down, hooked up the dolly and took it back to their lot. Everyone has been so nice there, it was a great relief. Mom insisted that we go on, and since we had to get the other trailer back by Tuesday, we really had no choice but to keep going. David plans to check on her tomorrow when he leaves here. Most people would get a little panicky, but not Mom. I wanted to stay with her, and she said "What are you going to do here, hold my hand?! I'll be fine, I'll rent a car and get to know Scranton for the next few days." She plans to drive over here when the motorhome is fixed, and spend at least a few days here before we start our trek back across the country.

David and Nic are only here one full day, and they spent most of the day helping put together furniture and unpack. They are superheroes, I think. They are planning to drive cross-country in 4 days, and since there are two of them to trade off driving, they may make it sooner. I wish they could go sightseeing with us for a couple days, but they both have to get back to work. This is the busiest time of year for Best by Farr, and Nic doesn't have much vacation time, so they have to get back.

I haven't uploaded any photos yet, I'll try to do that tomorrow. It's really pretty here, so many trees and so green! For a desert rat like me, it's a little surreal, I keep looking for the sprinklers and irrigation systems, but I think they just rely on rain to have such nice lawns and greenery. Manchester has over 100,000 in the city, and 250,000 in the immediate area.