Day 4 Wed Nov 28 Portsmouth, New Hamshire and to Durham and back and finally to Boston, MA

Day 4 Wed Nov 28 Portsmouth, New Hamshire and to Durham and back and finally to Boston, MA
Wow what a day this was.
So we having been waking up pretty early by the way. Alarm usually goes off at about 6 am. Which I guess isn't bad...i have had to get up earlier on productions before.
This morning was a beautiful morning and the sun was out in full thankully. It was pretty cold but that was ok.
We stayed in Portsmouth for the night but we didn't need to be anywhere until later in the day. Deb and I both needed a post office so we inquired for one and were told to head into downtown Portsmouth.
HOLY SHIT!!! What a step back in time. What a beautiful old city. The cutest most wonderful little old town ever. Deb and I were so struck by the whole thing. Check out all the pictures and bio at the link i provided. I will totally come back to visit this place again someday. What a great vacation to take and you are right next to Maine too. all the town x-mas decorations were out and it was just so awesome.
Well we also had a tentative schedule with a former Governor today. So former governor Jean Shaheen we were trying to get an interview with at her house in Durham. but her scheduler Dan eventually just told us no cause she is running for senate and just doesn't have the time for us. which was fine with me and Deb. We just decided we would go to the campaign headquarters and shoot some b-roll and see if we could at least catch a couple questions with her. We were totally ready to do this gorilla style. Dan her scheduler said it was ok that we come to headquarters as well so we weren't completely unexpected.
Well Deb and I left Portsmouth and headed to Durham to the address we were given. So we drive 30 min back into Durham and we are looking for this address and we aren't finding it. So Deb calls dear old Dan the scheduler and says "Dan we can not find this address in Durham that you say is the headquarters." and Dan says "oh thats cause the campaign headquarters are in Manchester." (which by the way is another hour in the opposite direction that we need to go) So when Deb and Dan were talking before we left Dan never mentioned oh by the way since you are not interviewing the governor at her home in Durham you can come the headquarters but they are Manchester.
(the link above is to her own website so I do realize it is not necessarily and objective opinion of who this woman is and her history as a politician but it was all I could really find about her)
so what for my moment of gorilla filmmaking. I was ready to shine baby!!!
Next Deb and I need to head to Boston. This is the day we needed to pick up Hwajin ( H wa gin) the korean girl and start taking her to boarding schools to look at the next day.
So Deb and I worked our way to Boston and drove around for awhile. You know Boston is really gritty. It looks a lot like Chicago but with out the charm and culture. and of course very Irish. We picked up Hwajin without issue and went to hour hotel.
We had a lot of time to relax this evening and I might have taken the opportunity to go downtown and see the city a bit but to be quite honest I am completely broke until I get paid for this so I really couldn't afford it.
There are really only two things I would have wanted to do. Go to Cheers and they have a movies shot in Boston tour that you can take and I would have totally done that. But oh well maybe another time. Boston did not strike me as must to revisit. I really didn't get out much to see it though so maybe I didnt' give it much of a chance.
Our hotel was a Hampton Inn. So far this has been my favorite hotel on the trip and we will be staying here serveral more times in the future. They have cookies ready for you at the counter when you come in. That alone is awesome.
Loading and unloading is becoming annoying but I am trying to have a good attitude about it. I will admit I over packed a little. Rather have to much than to little. Deb packed a little differently and has like 10 different small bags...which is cheating. She tried to make it look like she didn't pack much but I am not fooled
Debs eye is starting to look pretty messed up too from hitting it on the bookcase. It has bleed into the tissue around her eye so it really literally looks like someone punched her really hard. I am sure this will impress the affluent boarding school headmasters and governors we are going to meet. hehe We are laughing about it but Deb is doing her best to at least have her hair cover her forhead but her eye can not be covered.
hmm what else happend today...
we listened to New Hampshire Public Radio and Mass Public Radio
I have discovered that I like to drive a lot...I will drive anywhere...maybe I will just become a driver for a living.
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