Travel

How Do You Spend One Day In Boston?

How do you spend one day in Boston?  The short answer: walking your butt off! Doug and I have both travelled to Boston for business and he spent an afternoon wrecking his feet in business shoes, running the Freedom…

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Two Upscale Fishing Villages and an Ivy League School

Gloucester is America’s oldest seaport, so we couldn’t miss stopping here even though this was north of Salem (where we’d been earlier in the day).    As far as we could tell, its known for its many boating and…

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Let’s go WAYBAC to the Salem Witch Trials

If you ever watched the cartoon Mr. Peabody and Sherman then you know about the WAYBAC (Wormhole Activating and Bridging Automatic Computer).  Mr. Peabody is a bow-tie-wearing, genius dog (graduating Wagna Cum Laude from Harvard) who invents a time…

Travel

Seaside Maine

From Bar Harbor we headed south and enjoyed a lot of little seaside towns. But first, a quick drive by author Stephen King’s home in Bangor Maine.  Can’t you just imagine him writing his next novel from one of…

Scenic Cycling Travel

Two Full Days in Acadia National Park

Milbridge is on the northeastern coast of Maine and about an hour away from Acadia National Park.  We had the tiny campground of McClellen Park and its rocky shoreline to ourselves the night before we entered Bar Harbor and Acadia…

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Rude Awakening From Unlce Sam

After two wonderful months in eastern Canada we returned to the U.S. for one of our bucket-list items – fall colors!  There is no doubt that we fell head over heels in love with Canada.  The cities we visited…

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Reversing Falls and Downtown St. John

I love magic tricks and like most people I like to know how they’re done.  Once I find out though, I get a bit sad as now I know it won’t be fun to see the trick again.  This…