2003 Summer Road Trip Day 8-Polly’s Pancakes!

2003 Summer Road Trip Day 8

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Last night we were at our second campground of the trip – Crazy Horse RV Park. It’s locally owned by a very sweet couple. The landscaping was very nice – lots of flowers blooming and the grass all mowed. We were very grateful they found us a spot as we were escaping the Vermont floods. We got our walk in this morning and then headed to a very small town, Sugar Hill. It’s the home of Polly’s Pancake Parlor. What a great place! It’s family owned and was opened originally during the depression as a tearoom serving pancakes as a way to market the family’s maple products. It’s now into the fourth generation of pancake makers. They stone grind their own flours, except for white flour which is King Arthur flour. Interestingly, your server cooks your pancakes and delivers them to your table while the cooks in the kitchen handle the eggs/bacon/omelets etc. It’s been that way from the beginning. It takes someone special to be able to be a server at Polly’s. You can actually go to a counter and watch your server make your pancakes. We had buckwheat and plain pancakes, both flavors with blueberries. They were wonderful along with the bacon and excellent maple syrup.

The RV park had several cute signs along the road like this …

… and this New Hampshire manatee crossing sign …

… but they also had these 911 information signs posted around the park. Every RV park should do this.

The tourist information we read for the area suggested we eat here. It also suggested you call ahead to get on the waiting list. We called 20 minutes ahead and were told that there was a 30-45 minute wait so we might still have to wait a little while.

Our server cooking our pancakes. In case some of you were coming up with smart comments, only the six with blueberries by her right arm are ours.

From Polly’s we drove northeast to Mt Washington. At 6,288 feet it is the highest peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the highest peak in the northeastern US. The ears did some popping today and we are still at the base camp. Today we toured the museum and tomorrow will be the Cog Wheel train trip to the top.