This morning we woke up and decided to go on an aimless tour of the surrounding NH countryside. We left the maps at home and took off, initially going west. We ended up driving through some absolutely gorgeous rural areas with spectacular New England-style architecture. After a while, we turned north, mostly, and wandered about an hour that direction before heading east towards Portsmouth.
Before we made it to the Portsmouth area we found a terrific rural meat market where we stocked up on steaks, sausage, sliced honey maple turkey, local porter (of course) and some produce before continuing. Delightfully, Peg detected the presence of a Trader Joe’s market on the internet phone and we made another stop there before heading home. Thank God for Trader Joe’s. They have great food at fair prices and, since we are going into the wilds for the next week, we were able to fully stock our larders before going to the land of difficult shopping.