River Behind Our Bed and Breakfast

When we first got to our bed and breakfast building on Thursday night we could hear a river running nearby.  Unfortunately it was pitch dark and we had no idea where it was.  It seemed louder when we were on the balcony out back than it did on the porch in front.  On Friday morning we looked off the back balcony and there it was.  I took a couple of pictures from there and posted one yesterday.  Here’s another…

There was a road running right next to the river.  We tried using the GPS on our phones to find the name, but we had no cell signal and no wi-fi at all, so we were very much off the grid.  My wife is a software engineer.  I’m a programmer.  We both pretty much live on line.  To be shut off like that was a little disconcerting, but in the end it was a nice addition to our get away.

We thought the river might be the Swift river, which runs along part of the nearby Kancamagus highway (forgive me if I misspelled that), but we had no way of knowing.  This morning on our way home we took a guess at what road might be the one that runs alongside the river and we guessed right.  Well, Jen guessed right.  The chances of the river being the Swift were pretty slim as it was nearly dry at one point.  We did find the spot we had seen from the balcony, and I stopped and took a bunch of pictures.

Forgive me.  I just like taking pictures of rivers.

Now that I am home I checked on Google Maps and it is not the Swift.  It is a short little stream that begins a mile or so ahead of this spot and ends a mile or so away when it dumps into the Saco river.  I can’t seem to find a name for this little guy anywhere, but it is part of Merriman State Forest.