Category: Travel
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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…
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Oct 1-2, 2021 BOSTON!
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 to try their fish and chips while I wanted one last lobster roll, this time warm and plain with just melted butter. Holly…
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Sept 29-30, 2021 Birthday!
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 jammed pack with cars and other tourists. All the overlooks were mostly full of cars. The few available…
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Sept 28, 2021 Back in the USA
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 very good day to enjoy the outdoors so we went to Bar Harbor after lunch. Bar…
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Sept 25-27, 2021 Minister’s Island
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 drive from Sussex to St. Martin. The tides at St. Martin can be up to…