Tag: travel

This was our biggest day of driving so far on the trip.  We got up after our pleasant night in the tent, packed up, and started west.  We didn’t exactly have to be any where by specific days or times, but we were beginning to think it might be nice to have a few days…

In addition to his hiking hobby, Rick (our host in Maine), collects puzzles, fishes, canoes, and is an amateur pilot.  While on the hike the day before, he asked me if I’d ever flown in a small plane.  Despite the many flights I’ve taken, none of them have been in small planes.  I’ve flown in…

I literally spent the entire day of June 14th (the 10th day of our road trip) climbing Mount Katahdin.  Meanwhile, Debi and Toren slept in, then went to the discovery museum in Bangor with our host, MaryAnne.  Debi said they had a good time.  When Rick and I finally arrived home around 8:00 pm, we…

We got up fairly early and headed to Mount Washington.  You can read about our trip up the mountain here.  This was the point when the weather finally turned nice during our trip.  While it was cold on the top of Mount Washington, it wasn’t raining, and we didn’t get too much rain from here…

When we got up in the morning in our odd hotel, Debi and Toren wanted to go swimming in the pool.  They went down to ask about the pool and the same woman I had tried to talk to the previous night was at the desk.  Debi literally said, “Is the pool open?”  The woman…

Part of the reason for driving up the East Coast, in addition to visiting family, was visiting a few more state highpoints.  After 5 days on the road, we began the highpointing period.  On June 11th we visited two state highpoint: Connecticut and Massachusetts.  I created separate posts for each of those, so you can…

We slept in again, given the long drive the night before. We got up, packed up, ate another continental breakfast, and headed to Steve’s place in Brooklyn.  Even though our hotel was just 5 or 6 miles from his place, it took us 30 minutes to get there.  Luckily we found a place to park…

It was Sunday and my sister and her family were going to church.  They actually left for church before we packed up and left, but were very kind in letting us stay there getting everything ready for the next leg of our journey. I had another book talk lined up for mid-afternoon in Fredericksburg, VA.…

We spent the entire day with my sister.  While we waited for her husband and older boys to get home, Toren played on the swings with his cousin Brent: Her older boys and her husband came home in the morning and in the early afternoon we went out to Great Country Farms, which has a…