Trips to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Bonnie and I are huge fans of the National Park Service. We have visited more than 200 units out of the 419 (and growing) units in the U.S. and its territories. In…
New England
For every amazing vista at a national park, it is corners of history we find at these sites which make our journeys to the obscure sites off the beaten path so worth it. We don’t go on vacation so much as explore America. It isn’t always pretty, but it is majestic.
Grant and I have been dating since early 2009. That makes this our 8th Independence Day together. In that time we have never seen fireworks on the Fourth of July. We have…
Yesterday and today have been an interesting mix of sites in coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island. We drove to Plymouth and set up camp outside the city in probably the worst campsite…
It is good as we head into Independence Day to spend a little time thinking back on the early days of the American Revolution. It reminds of us of the price paid…
Oh, Mother Nature… How sweet she can be sometimes and how cruel she can be other times. Over the past seven years that Grant and I have been traveling together, we have…
In terms of New England coastal towns, Bar Harbor is more closely related to Key West than it is some of the more quaint towns found further south along Maine’s coast. The…
I almost want to tag this blog post as an international trip… Does it count if you drove over to another country and then visited an international park? What about if it’s…
You may not have ever heard of Baxter State Park, but we think it is a place not only worth knowing about, but visiting. Most of our US travel is centered around…
Please forgive me, but I feel I must be a little cliché with this next quote: “The mountains are calling and I must go.” John Muir wrote that in a letter to…
The past couple of days have been a lesson in a slower pace of life. We drove over here from the Adirondacks, crossing almost the entire state of Vermont, which neither of…
Art Weir Farm National Historic Site Weir Farm is one of those places that you just never hear about until you start looking into American artists. I certainly had never heard of…
