IT'S COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND, and like Columbus — who took a chance to sail the ocean blue in 1492 — we'll all be taking chances by venturing out onto the crowded leaf-peeping roadways in the next few days as the “Perfect Storm” of fairs, foliage and traffic reaches its peak.

“We're busy — very busy. We're busier than we were last year, and we were very  busy then,” is how office manager Sarah Verney of the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce put it when we called Thursday afternoon to see how many calls the chamber was fielding heading into the blockbuster weekend.

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