MartyA
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I mentioned this trip to a few folks so I thought I would share with everyone. Sally and I get together each summer with a couple of friends from southern PA and Atlanta and go off on a 7-10 day trip. Last year we zig-zagged west to South Dakota and back for 4,000+ miles over 9 days and this year we are going to all the New England states and on to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and PEI for 10 days.
We try to keep it cheap by visiting interesting and notorius places with little or no admission, and all 5 of us share a motel room most of the time which allows us to sleep cheep. We are stopping at places like the Statue of Liberty, Lizzie Borden's house, the castle from Dark Shadows, a newly discovered floating bridge from another post, Salem witch stuff (Sally had ancestors there who didn't float
), both Minuteman statues in Lexington and Concord, Old North Church (maybe), Legend of Sleepy Hollow cemetery, Campobello, Bah Hahbah, TRACY ROAD!!, stuff like that. We also go for scenic stuff like the Cabot Trail, Kancamagus Highway, [the former] Old Man in the Mountain, Ausable falls, Kaaterskil Falls, Whiteface Mountain, Mt. Washington, Moose, the sunset at beautiful Cavendish Beach, 40 foot tides at Burntcoat and Maitland, Hopewell Rocks, stuff like that. We try to keep to the 2 lane roads, and keep slabs nearby to make up time if needed. This trip will be up Rt 1 along the coast as much as possible and we will watch for whales. On the return we will zig-zag through ME, NH, VT, and NY.
My friends drive baggers so we don't target the good twisty roads (since I do the route planning and I am the guide I do get to pick the roads.... and we don't travel too fast.
This is a copy / paste image from Streets and Trips. Not too detailed but you get the idea. We leave Saturday from Lancaster PA. Some of you know I don't have GPS yet so I use MaPS. We get a lot of practice with U-turns....
We try to keep it cheap by visiting interesting and notorius places with little or no admission, and all 5 of us share a motel room most of the time which allows us to sleep cheep. We are stopping at places like the Statue of Liberty, Lizzie Borden's house, the castle from Dark Shadows, a newly discovered floating bridge from another post, Salem witch stuff (Sally had ancestors there who didn't float
), both Minuteman statues in Lexington and Concord, Old North Church (maybe), Legend of Sleepy Hollow cemetery, Campobello, Bah Hahbah, TRACY ROAD!!, stuff like that. We also go for scenic stuff like the Cabot Trail, Kancamagus Highway, [the former] Old Man in the Mountain, Ausable falls, Kaaterskil Falls, Whiteface Mountain, Mt. Washington, Moose, the sunset at beautiful Cavendish Beach, 40 foot tides at Burntcoat and Maitland, Hopewell Rocks, stuff like that. We try to keep to the 2 lane roads, and keep slabs nearby to make up time if needed. This trip will be up Rt 1 along the coast as much as possible and we will watch for whales. On the return we will zig-zag through ME, NH, VT, and NY.My friends drive baggers so we don't target the good twisty roads (since I do the route planning and I am the guide I do get to pick the roads....
and we don't travel too fast.This is a copy / paste image from Streets and Trips. Not too detailed but you get the idea. We leave Saturday from Lancaster PA. Some of you know I don't have GPS yet so I use MaPS. We get a lot of practice with U-turns....
