This afternoon Jean and I departed Cary, NC on the start of our one month trek to New England. Farewell Party at Cary, NC On the 750 mile trip from Cary to our first official destination, Jean’s sister’s home in Oneida, NY, we spent our first evening in Culpeper, VA, about 30 miles north of […]
Blog Entry #1 Wednesday August 27 to Sunday August 31, 2014 – North Carolina to Oneida Read More »
I am writing you from Fort Ticonderoga on the western bank of Lake Champlain in eastern New York State. Jean felt I could use some history learn’n so we elected to visit the Fort and spend the night in the town of Ticonderoga. For the past 90 years, a private foundation has been undertaking an
Blog Entry #2 Monday September 1, 2014 – Ticonderoga Read More »
It might be hard to believe, but it is 9-3-14 and here we are in Bar Harbor, Maine adjacent to Acadia National Park. We arrived midafternoon after spending last evening in the town of Bethel in western Maine. The prior day, 9-2-14, we traveled from Ticonderoga, NY, through Vermont and New Hampshire to Bethel. That
Motel in Bar Harbor, ME On September 4th we arrived at a “quaint” motel on the outskirts of Bar Harbor, ME adjacent to the east side of Acadia National Park. The motel provided a fitting setting for our NE Willys Trek, as I estimate it was built in the mid-20th century like our 1950 vehicle.
The morning of Saturday, September 6th we loaded up the Jeep and left our mid- 50’s Bar Harbor motel for the trek to Portsmouth, NH for the start of the Antique Automobile Club of America Sentimental Tour for southern Maine and Northern New Hampshire. Wanting to make some side trips to the coastal towns on
Duesenburg in Front of Portsmouth Country Club Been a whirlwind week attending the 2014 Antique Automobile Club of America Sentimental Tour based in Portsmouth, NH. They kept us pretty busy each day with trips to attractions in southern Maine and eastern New Hampshire, along with some evening events. We also had very informative visits to
Left Portsmouth, NH the morning of September 13th on a journey to the home of my nephew Jim and his wife Jen in Worcester, MA. We selected a back roads route that gave Boston a wide berth. Our only real encounter with city traffic was in Leominster (pronounced “Lemister”), MA where, owing to an error
On the 16th of September Rusty’s wife Gail and I took a driving tour of the Little Compton, RI region while Jean and her brother Rusty got caught up as they sorted through some circa 1950 family slides. Largest Model of a Ship in the World, the Lagoda The next morning, September 17th (and after installing
Let’s see, we left the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, CT the afternoon of Friday, September 19th after a tailgate lunch in the museum parking lot and made the trek further west in Connecticut to the home of my cousin Judy in Middlefield CT. Michael, Joey, Becky, David, and Judy Avoiding the major cities and
Crossing into Maryland The afternoon of September 24th we made a successful crossing of Delaware Bay on the ferry from Cape May, NJ to Lewes, DE. We then drove south to spend the evening in Ocean City, MD to prepare for our assault on the Chesapeake Bridge-Tunnel on the 25th. We experienced our first real
Blog Entry #10 Wednesday September 24 to Friday September 26, 2014 – The Long Drive Home Read More »
