Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
OR…Leaf Peeping from Vermont… …as we were camping at Quechee State Park in Vermont, on the border with New Hampshire, and spent our time visiting places in Vermont and New Hampshire. We drove & walked through some spectacular fall foliage (cover photo taken from the Easy Over Gondola at Stowe Read more…
All around Katahdin We spent 6 nights camping just 8 miles south of the Baxter State Park South Entrance. Baxter State Park, among many other things, is home to Katahdin and Mount Baxter, the end of the Appalachian Trail. The first day, we visited Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument Read more…
…Point, Town, Campground, and Lighthouse! We have spent the last 5 nights at the Easternmost campground in the US (Sunset Point RV Park), in the Easternmost town (Lubec, Maine), home of the Easternmost Lighthouse (West Quoddy). We’re also in the land of high tide ranges, i.e. close to the Bay Read more…
Yep! Another exciting weather event! Hurricane Lee, now Post Tropical Cyclone Lee, has passed by us. Started raining about midnight and we expect it won’t stop until sometime this evening. Ditto for the wind, which are not the worst we’ve experienced. (Dust storms in Alamogordo, NM and Amarillo, TX rocked Lizzy Read more…
Not a lot of Cape Cod, but we did see Nauset Light! We camped in Shawmee-Crowell State Forest, just south of the Canal in Sandwich, so, officially on the Cape. We spent most of our time (3 days) hanging out in camp , what with the rain and all. OK. Read more…
Eight nights in Jersey City, across the Hudson from NYC Very interesting RV Park…location, location, location, just a 10 minute walk from the Liberty Harbor Ferry, which crosses the Hudson to Lower Manhattan in just 10 minutes, for $6 (senior rate.) In 7 days, we took 5 day trips to Read more…
While Lizzy got a 5-Year Check-Up at Colonial Airstream… We left New Jersey a week ago Tuesday, for a 9-day Road Trip to Philadelphia, Annapolis, and Dover. In 9 days (including stops enroute, on 3 driving days) we packed in quite a bit, walking quite a few miles as we Read more…
Lots of Family Time! From New Holland, we got to visit Gail’s cousin Lee Ann a couple of times, just before her birthday, so it included 2 birthday dinners, one at her house with friends, and one a cookout in camp, when she came to meet Lizzy. Then we got Read more…
Made it to Amish Country…3rd stop in Pennsylvania! We spent another week around Donora, PA, mostly visiting Mark’s family. Then we spent 4 nights/3 days in Gettysburg. There we spent a day in Harrisburg and 2 days in Gettysburg. Some fun included: Spending Joy’s Birthday in Pittsburgh! Spontaneous! Walk across Read more…
So Much History! We stayed in Lebanon, between Dayton and Cincinnati for 6 nights, where we squeezed in 5 days of touring, followed by 2 nights at Buckeye Lake for 1 day of touring in Columbus, a bit short, due to the rain. Didn’t make it to Hopewell Culture National Read more…