I had many things that needed to be completed before I could fully commit to living full time in my RV home. Those things required that I be in southern New England, but the choices of where to stay were limited.   I couldn’t go “home” to my house since the motorhome wouldn’t fit comfortably in the yard.
In New England, campgrounds start shutting down for the winter in the middle of October. By December first, very few campgrounds are open. With this limitation in mind, I set out to find a place or places to stay that were in easy travel distance of my house in southern New Hampshire and my mother’s house in Worcester Massachusetts.
The closest I could find to my house in NH was the Boston Minuteman Campground in Littleton MA. This campground closed on the 18 of October, but I spent a week there filling the RV with all of the stuff I had staged in my basement in NH. I really like this campground, it’s not to far from I-495 and has good Wifi and cable TV.

My RV home at Boston Minuteman Campground

The remaining weeks in October were spent down on the Cape Cod canal at Bourne Scenic Park. This is a park I enjoy staying at for the activities provided by the canal. You can walk or bike ride on the 7 miles of service roads on either side of the canal while watching the boat traffic in the canal. They don’t have sewer hook-ups so two weeks was about right to test my holding tank capacity. As it turned out I did fine. I only filled the gray (non-toilet) tank to about two thirds and the black (toilet) tank much less. A third week, with a little care, would be do able.

Exterior view with awning deployed at Bourne Scenic Park

By the beginning of November, my choices of campgrounds was very limited. I booked a month at Normandy Farms Campground in Foxborough, MA. This is a very nice resort level campground that I had heard many good things about, but had never stayed at. It proved to be a good location provided I planned around the New England Patriots home games. The campground not only fills during the home games, but getting to and from the campground around game traffic is challenging.

My RV home at Normandy Farms Campgrounds

The month of November was relatively mild compared to recent years.  We didn’t have an ice or snow storm like we had last year.  I needed to run the gas furnace to keep the motorhome above freezing over night a few times, but most days I got away with using a small electric heater.  If I didn’t run heat overnight, it was not unusual for the inside temperature to be in the 40s when I got up in the  morning.

By the end of November it was getting to cold to continue in New England, the sale of my mothers house had been completed, I’d had a new heating system installed in my New Hampshire house, and I was ready to get out of the cold.   I had pushed my luck as far as I was prepared to; as far as the weather goes.