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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After our usual morning homeschooling we drove to the nearby Susan’s Fish & Chips for our final meal in Maine This is an unpretentious seafood place in a former garage Holly wanted…
The day dawned lovely and bright and we were going to try to visit Acadia National Park again and hopefully enjoy the sights of the park in good weather We drove into the park and found it…
On our first full day back in the US we went into Acadia National Park It was a rather cold, dark and overcast day and the fall foliage was just starting to come in It really was not a…
We got up early in the morning and rushed to St Martin to visit the St Martin Sea Caves The Sea Caves are only accessible during low tide which happened to be at 9:15 AM and it is an hour’s…
We spent most of the day driving back to the Fundy Discovery Center, stopping for lunch at a scenic park along the shore This would be our third time visiting the Fundy Discovery Center which…