Ohio has many claims to fame, but to me Ohio means family: my mom’s whole side of the family is from there. We visited family many times through the years and Ohio will always be the place where I had many adventures (and misadventures) with my extended family.
Hocking Hills State Park? Oh, that’s the place [...]
Though the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has many enticing reasons to stay and explore we only had time for a brief stop in the northern part of the state. Pennsylvania means “Penn’s Woods” and was named after William Penn who was given the land by the King of England. The tract granted to Penn in 1681 [...]
We were in the Buffalo area to visit one of Lance’s many homelands; he lived here with his family in the mid–1980s while his father was attending SUNY. Amazingly, many of the things Lance remembered have stayed the same: his old house, his school, the pond where he used to play. Of course a great [...]
We entered the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York with no preset plan, we just figured we’d find something interesting in the area, and we did. The Finger Lakes themselves consist of either seven or eleven (depending on who you ask) long river valleys that were dammed by glacial moraines at the end of [...]
Our first stop in New York wasn’t far from where we crossed Lake Champlain: Fort Ticonderoga. The strategically located fort stands on a peninsula that juts out into Lake Champlain. The lake was once an important part of a network of waterways; it is near Lake George on one end and connects to the St. [...]
Driving from New Hampshire into Vermont we noticed two things immediately. One, there are no billboards along the highway (a state law). Not that New Hampshire is littered with them but their absence was wonderful; it made the drive more scenic and less hectic (I feel obligated to read all the billboards along the way, [...]
Our time in New Hampshire was spent in the north country, “North of the Notches” as they say. We settled into an RV park just outside of Gorham. Gorham is a small crossroads town; two highways meet here, the train trundles through several times a day, the Appalachian Trail meanders near town and the wide [...]
As Garrison Keillor says, “It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegone”. Technically, we were in western Maine but you know what I mean. It was good to have a mellow week as we needed time to catch up on work and plan out our itinerary. Our goal for so long had been to visit [...]
For our time on Mount Desert Island (MDI) we opted to stay on the “Quietside.” Meaning that we were on the opposite side of the island from the ultra-touristy town of Bar Harbor. Our RV park was tucked in the hills above the small fishing village of Southwest Harbor. When I say hills I am [...]
We entered Maine with a sigh of relief. The difference was tangible: we could see and feel the wide open space, the road widened and straightened. The hills covered in pine trees rolled along with us. After the past couple months in the more crowded states of New England it was a welcome relief to [...]
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