Capitols of New York, New Hampshire

83 degrees here at East Haddam, Connecticut (About 30 miles south of Hartford)

We left Old Orchard Beach, Maine on Monday morning.  Had stayed at that Sun Community Park (that accepted Passport America) 4 nights and drove some 500 miles on various day trips out from there.  That included driving south to Boston Friday.

Drove to Concord, NH and found they did not have guided tours of the state capitol.  Were

 given pamphlet to follow.  This capitol and the one in Vermont did not have any security to go through, somewhat of an anomaly.

Their House of Representatives has a large number of seats.

There Senate was quite small.

Across  the street from the
Capitol was this huge
clock.

The large pendulum hung almost to the street level and a bell the size of the liberty bell is struck on the hour.

 While driving through Vermont while on way to Albany, NY when saw this car on a used car lot beside the highway.  Had to find a place to turn around and go back to take pictures.  This is a 4-door sedan, 1957 Chevrolet exactly same (including color) that Phyllis learned to drive in.

It was a long drive on to Albany, NY.  We had quite a time finding the capitol -- using GPS coordinates off several websites gave us several places, non capitol.  Finally put in State Museum and came within a block of the capitol.  The neighborhood near there is less than desirable with very narrow streets and a lot of people

 standing on street corners and curb sides -- not Caucasians.

Since it was 5 pm and workers were leaving the area we were able to park in a huge visitor-employee lot some 4 blocks from the capitol (after explaining twice to the attendant that we did not intend to camp overnight.  He just couldn't believe we were there with a trailer)

 Website had said the capitol was open until 7 pm for visits, but I hadn't noticed it said the last guided tour was at 3:30 PM.  However, as luck would have it, a State employee was conducting a tour for a private group (Lawyers from NYC and other parts of New York) and allowed us to join the group.  It being late, some of the lights were not on in some of the places.

 One interesting story was the $1.2 Million cleaning of the huge 4-story stairs a few years ago.  A special gel-like material was developed that was coated on all the pink granite, let harden and then peeled off bringing the gunk with it.
They left about a 1-foot wide area on one railing that was not cleaned and it was noticeably darker.  I took a photo of it, but it was fuzzy.

State Seal

Original State House was torn down and this current one built.  The clock in center of this photo came from that building.  It had been there when Abe Lincoln spoke in that chamber before becoming President and the clock was there when President Lincoln's body lay in state there in 1865.

We went on from there to a Passport America RV Park just southwest of Schenectady, NY.  Was nearly dark and we ate our lunch at the trailer about 8:30 PM that night.

Below are photos of the clouds as we drove between Albany and Schenectady.

 Gotta run - going to Providence, Rhode Island for the day.  Will fill in earlier part of the week, later.
Lynn