Tag Archives: Travel

Only one way to roll in Maine.

Posted on December 17, 2022 by polloplayer

You guessed it. Lobster roll! We checked in at Cape Elizabeth’s lovely Inn by the Sea and headed straight to their Sea Glass restaurant for dinner. Our first Maine lobster roll! But not our last… Next morning we took the … Continue reading →

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“Worst weather in the world”

Posted on December 10, 2022 by polloplayer

Well if that’s not a vacation draw, I don’t know what is. Who wouldn’t want to head straight for the “worst weather in the world”, right? If I had to plan all over again I think I would have routed … Continue reading →

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Solving for pie…

Posted on December 3, 2022 by polloplayer

The most pressing question on our road trips is not the calculation of distance from Point A to Point B, but from Point A to “WHERE DO WE HAVE LUNCH”? We said farewell to the Berkshires, heading east and then … Continue reading →

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Her House of Mirth.

Posted on November 26, 2022 by polloplayer

We have a thing for author pilgrimages. We tromped to Asheville, N.C. to visit Thomas Wolfe’s home (so central to his masterpiece Look Homeward, Angel); to Key West to visit Ernest Hemingway’s home and his six-toed cats (we also followed … Continue reading →

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Living the Gilded Age Dream.

Posted on November 19, 2022 by polloplayer

Those robber baron millionaires of the late nineteenth century left plenty of evidence of their beautiful excesses – there are the “cottages” at Newport, R.I., the Vanderbilt “Biltmore” monstrosity in Asheville, N.C., and any number of Manhattan mansions long since … Continue reading →

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A Thoreau-ly lovely afternoon.

Posted on November 12, 2022 by polloplayer

When I planned our trip, I pictured that Sunday stretching out endlessly before us. Surely we would take in every historical and natural amazement between Boston and our destination in the Berkshires. But somehow we had frittered away the morning…hey, … Continue reading →

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Pretty as a Picture: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Posted on October 29, 2022 by polloplayer

Two days was not enough time to do even Boston proper properly. But we did check one highlight off my list, the Venetian-inspired villa that wealthy collector Isabella Stewart Gardner built as her home in 1899-1901 and left to posterity … Continue reading →

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Boston, by land and by sea.

Posted on October 22, 2022 by polloplayer

Those Boston Brahmins must have been ready to clutch their pearls when the likes of the CE and I blew in from California. Luckily, oh so luckily, two dear – and much more refined – friends happened to be visiting … Continue reading →

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A change of scenery – and seasons.

Posted on October 8, 2022 by polloplayer

I don’t know about you, but we’ve had a bit of a hard time revving up the travel engines after those two years of house arrest. We made a few tentative beginnings by returning to favorite destinations, but no forward … Continue reading →

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Snapshot: Santa Fe

Posted on August 13, 2022 by polloplayer

We’re here just long enough to skim the surface, and haven’t really ventured more than a few blocks from the town’s iconic plaza What I will remember are the flowers, everywhere: And the perfect weather, bluest of blue skies: New … Continue reading →

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