On the road in Hanover, NH

By Melanie Brooks

Hello from your friendly neighbor...New Hampshire! Sandy (who does our graphic designing for all of our magazines) and I are in Hanover, NH visiting with Dartmouth Printing, the 300-year-old company that prints all of our magazines.

We left Bangor at 8 am this morning. After breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts and a suspicious lunch at a dive called Chantilly's, we made it to Hanover. The foliage is in its peak here right now and it's absolutely gorgeous.

We took a tour of the printing facility this afternoon with our sales rep. Matthew. He showed us everything from their paper warehouse to their presses to their assembly to their post office. WOW! I had no idea. We brought our own proofing printer along so that the good people at Dartmouth Printing could install some new software on it for us. Luckily our kind and considerate customer service rep., Dale, unloaded it from our rented SUV -- that sucker weighs 85 pounds!

After an informative tour and a quickie nap at our hotel, Sandy and I met Matthew and Dale in town for dinner at a place called Molly's. Hanover is a quaint New England town with a darling main strip and preppy Dartmouth College students around every corner. Exhausted from our drive and anticipating a long day ahead tomorrow, in which Leslie will join us for more meetings at Dartmouth, Sandy and I have retired to our rooms for the night.