Acadia, the most eastern national park

Acadia National Park Along the east coast Southwest Harbor still looking for those reflections Acadia national park is near Bar Harbor in Maine. Even though I looked a long time ago, we couldn’t book a campsite in the National Parks campgrounds as they were full. I rang an RV park that had good reviews and […]

Exploring the Maritimes

Boothbay Harbor, ME Ram Island Light What a lovely area this is. We have taken time here to slow down. Apart from walking around the town, having a beer at the local pub looking out on the water, we took a boat ride out in the harbor to see the puffins at Eastern Egg Rock. […]

Bewitched

Salem, MA Fort Pickering Light, Salem In the summer of 1692, hundreds of people in this area were accused of practicing witchcraft, which was considered a crime at the time. The hysteria spread through communities as far north as Maine. These events become known as the Salem Witch Trials as the court was held in […]

Birth of Independence

Boston, MA Most guides get dressed up in costume, but ours didn’t It took us nearly eight hours to drive 238 miles, the traffic was slower than walking pace at times. What a way to spend my birthday, I didn’t time that very well. There were about four tolls ranging from $2.25 to $24.75. Three […]

The city that never sleeps

New York City, NY Fulton Station We nearly didn’t go to New York because a friend of ours missed the turn off and ended up driving his 5th wheel into Manhattan. Yikes! he still has nightmares about it. After some soothing, Lindsay reluctantly agreed as long as we made sure we knew where we were […]

Philadelphia Freedom

Philadelphia, PA Benjamin Franklin Bridge The Benjamin (Ben) Franklin Bridge is a suspension bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey. It carries 100,000 vehicles a day, a car costs $5 (trucks are more) westbound into PA. It cost $37m to build and based on the car tolls alone, they make […]

Living in a different century

Buggies instead of cars for transport There aren’t many people who would willingly give up what most consider creature comforts. The Amish roots can be traced back to the 1500’s but they came in early the 1700’s from Switzerland, Germany and Alsace-Loraine in France to Pennsylvania. Not your common road sign Not everyone in the Lancaster […]

A Civil War battlefield

Gettysburg, PA There are monuments dotted all around the countryside Gettysburg is only a few hours from the Capital. The campground I had booked couldn’t have been in a better location, being only half a mile to the National Park visitor centre and half a mile to the town. Many of the houses in town […]