Author: Hin
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Oct 22-24, 2021 Statue of Liberty!
We returned to New York once again, this time we walked down to Battery Park where we got tickets to go to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. It was a nice short boat ride to Liberty Island where we joined a short ranger led talk before having lunch. After lunch, we went to…
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Oct 20-21, 2021 Broadway!
We had packed an overnight backpack and got a ride with my Aunt and Uncle, this time to their office in Brooklyn which was also located in Chinatown. It seems that New York has three Chinatowns, one in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn and a newer Chinatown in Flushing. We explored the Brooklyn Chinatown which had…
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Oct 18-19, 2021 New York City!
We got up early so we could ride with my Aunt and Uncle into New York where they worked in Chinatown. This was perfect since our first stop in any city with a Chinatown is Chinatown! We explored Chinatown which had a very authentic feel to it with narrow, crowded streets lined with all manner…
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Oct 16-17, 2021 Giant Crab!
Connecticut is a small state so we had just one stop, Louis Lunch in New Haven. In 1900 Louis Lassen invented the hamburger in this extremely small restaurant by broiling a ground beef patty and putting it between two slices of toast. They still serve this original hamburger made the exact same way, even using…
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Oct 14-15, 2021 All You Can Lobster!
A couple days of slow travel had brought us back to Boston and Holly wanted to visit Harvard University. No sense waiting when you can start scouting out Universities for your 8-year-old child. The university campus is lovely, full of large red brick buildings. We were impressed to find out that the main library, which…
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Oct 11-13, 2021 Apple Picking
We completed our tour of route 100 by going through the Smuggler’s Notch pass which was actually used to smuggle freed slaves before the Civil War to Canada, alcohol from Canada to the US during Prohibition, and finally used by conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War to escape to Canada. Now it is a very…
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Oct 9-10, 2021 Enjoying the Vermont Foliage
We woke among the trees and continued our drive. It would have been nice to stay in our hidden nook for an extra day but our fresh water was getting low and we needed to keep moving. It was another day of driving through the fall colors and we stopped by a cute little waterfall…
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Oct 7-8, 2021 Vermont!
One of the main reasons we were in New England was to see the fall foliage and we had been carefully monitoring the weather and status of the color change. Go too early and everything is still green. Go too late and the leaves are all on the ground. There is only a few week…
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Oct 5-6, 2021 Of Witches and Rebels
When we awoke, it was still cloudy but no sign of rain so we drove into central Salem and found a parking spot on the street before going out to look for some witches in Salem town. We immediately spotted a number of witches or at least people dressed in black and wearing pointy hats. …
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Oct 3-4, 2021 The Freedom Trail
We actually got up at a reasonable hour and took an Uber to the USS Constitution. Built in 1797 the USS Constitution is the oldest active naval ship still afloat and it is one of the original ships of the US Navy. It is still listed as a fully active ship of the US Navy…