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Tag Archives: Travel
Only one way to roll in Maine.
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
“Worst weather in the world”
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
Solving for pie…
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
Posted in Travel
Tagged Chester Vermont, Life, New England, road trip, Southern Pie Café, Travel, Vermont
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Her House of Mirth.
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
Posted in Life
Tagged Edith Wharton, Life, literature, New England, The Berkshires, The Mount Lenox Massachusetts, Travel
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Living the Gilded Age Dream.
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
Posted in Life, Travel
Tagged Life, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge Massachusetts, The Berkshires Massachusetts, Travel, Wheatleigh
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A Thoreau-ly lovely afternoon.
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
Posted in Big Fun, Life, Travel
Tagged Bridge of Flowers, Henry David Thoreau, Life, Massachusetts, Mohawk Trail, New England, Shelburne Falls Massachusetts, Travel, Walden Pond
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Pretty as a Picture: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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
Posted in Life, Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Travel
Tagged art, Bernard Berenson, Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John Singer Sargent, Life, Travel
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Boston, by land and by sea.
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
A change of scenery – and seasons.
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
Snapshot: Santa Fe
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
Posted in Life, Music/Art/Literature/Culture, Travel
Tagged Life, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Travel
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