I’M SORRY, MOM (PART 3)--Fishducky Friday
(or OH, TO BE IN NEW ENGLAND WHEN THE FOLIAGE IS FOLIAGING*)
When we were last visiting, Bud & I were still roughing it in our squalid quarters at the Waldorf.
On October 1st,
we rented a car & started our drive up the East Coast. We’d never
seen the beautiful fall foliage there & we were really looking
forward to it. I even had my new camera with me. No matter what
direction you turned, the scenery
was breathtaking—it was impossible to take a bad picture! Here are 4 of the many shots that I took:
Our first destination was Connecticut, to see our son & his family.
After a few days there, we drove through Rhode Island to
Massachusetts, where, of course, we HAD to see Plymouth Rock. The rock,
itself, is now quite small—4 or 5 feet high. They estimate it to be
only about 1/6th
of the original size. The rest of it has gone to museums--&
souvenir hunters. It’s now enclosed in a monument, which protects it
from the elements--& people.
Right offshore, there’s the Mayflower II, a replica of the original.
On board, people are living, working & speaking as if it were still
the 1600’s. Very interesting!!
From there, it was on to New Hampshire. We rode the funicular railroad
up Mt. Washington & saw The Old Man of the Mountain, a natural rock
formation. The following is taken from Wikipedia: Daniel Webster, a New Hampshire native,
once wrote: "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective
trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch,
and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New
Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes
men." Unfortunately,
like the old woman in the TV ads, he’s fallen & he can’t get up.
He fell several years ago but he was there when we were!
Next, we went to Maine. We had no plans of going there, but we’d heard
Bar Harbor was nice. We loved it! The town was lovely & the
people were very friendly. We had no hotel reservations for anywhere on
this trip—we just went where the winds blew us--& I’m so glad they
blew us to Maine. (I could have used a little less wind, though. I was
getting something out of the trunk of the car & the wind slammed it
down on me---OOWWWW!!) We loved Acadia National Park (below). It was
beautiful!
We had spent our honeymoon in Las Vegas, so we decided to stop at
Niagara Falls on the way back to the airport. It was magnificent!! We
rode on the ship, The Maid of the Mist, right up to the falls. This is
not me—I just wanted to show you the rainwear everyone is issued. The
other picture shows why!
This is me at the falls:
The
freeways (or turnpikes/expressways, or whatever they call them there)
don’t have exits as often as we’re used to. We were heading to the
airport to catch a plane home—the only reservation we’d made on this
trip--& we missed the exit. We had to go to the next one—25 miles
away, get off & go back. We had a 50 mile detour. We made it in
time, instead of early. No problem. We always had lots of
laughs--& FUN—when we travelled!
*I know “foliaging” isn’t a word, but it should be!----fishducky
When we were last visiting, Bud & I were still roughing it in our squalid quarters at the Waldorf.
On October 1st,
we rented a car & started our drive up the East Coast. We’d never
seen the beautiful fall foliage there & we were really looking
forward to it. I even had my new camera with me. No matter what
direction you turned, the scenery
was breathtaking—it was impossible to take a bad picture! Here are 4 of the many shots that I took:
Our first destination was Connecticut, to see our son & his family.
After a few days there, we drove through Rhode Island to
Massachusetts, where, of course, we HAD to see Plymouth Rock. The rock,
itself, is now quite small—4 or 5 feet high. They estimate it to be
only about 1/6th
of the original size. The rest of it has gone to museums--&
souvenir hunters. It’s now enclosed in a monument, which protects it
from the elements--& people.
Right offshore, there’s the Mayflower II, a replica of the original.
On board, people are living, working & speaking as if it were still
the 1600’s. Very interesting!!
From there, it was on to New Hampshire. We rode the funicular railroad
up Mt. Washington & saw The Old Man of the Mountain, a natural rock
formation. The following is taken from Wikipedia: Daniel Webster, a New Hampshire native,
once wrote: "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective
trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch,
and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New
Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes
men." Unfortunately,
like the old woman in the TV ads, he’s fallen & he can’t get up.
He fell several years ago but he was there when we were!
Next, we went to Maine. We had no plans of going there, but we’d heard
Bar Harbor was nice. We loved it! The town was lovely & the
people were very friendly. We had no hotel reservations for anywhere on
this trip—we just went where the winds blew us--& I’m so glad they
blew us to Maine. (I could have used a little less wind, though. I was
getting something out of the trunk of the car & the wind slammed it
down on me---OOWWWW!!) We loved Acadia National Park (below). It was
beautiful!
We had spent our honeymoon in Las Vegas, so we decided to stop at
Niagara Falls on the way back to the airport. It was magnificent!! We
rode on the ship, The Maid of the Mist, right up to the falls. This is
not me—I just wanted to show you the rainwear everyone is issued. The
other picture shows why!
This is me at the falls:
The
freeways (or turnpikes/expressways, or whatever they call them there)
don’t have exits as often as we’re used to. We were heading to the
airport to catch a plane home—the only reservation we’d made on this
trip--& we missed the exit. We had to go to the next one—25 miles
away, get off & go back. We had a 50 mile detour. We made it in
time, instead of early. No problem. We always had lots of
laughs--& FUN—when we travelled!
*I know “foliaging” isn’t a word, but it should be!----fishducky
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