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It's Columbus Day Weekend and it's the end of tourist season in NH. With the late autumn foliage this year the colors have not yet peaked but it's time for us visitors to get out of town. Our campground for the last two nights closes at noon on Monday. We chose today...
Stopping by woods on an autumn day, we hobnobbed with the spirit of the poet at The Frost Place in Franconia NH. Robert Frost purchased this house and farm from a local family in 1915 and sold it back to them in 1920. Of the myriad places he lived, from San Francisco...
This Columbus Day weekend is the peak of the Leaf Peeper season here in the White Mountains. Lodgings and campgrounds tend to be filled to capacity by folks who made reservations months ago. We on the other hand opted to arrive yesterday without reservations and hope...
Wow! It seems the colors popped out overnight! We made our way from east of Montpelier on into New Hampshire today glorying in the gorgeous autumn foliage. We stopped by a historic covered bridge along the way. Once we got settled into our campsite, we headed into the...
After yesterday's adventures, we settled in on Site 70 at Oxbow Campground near Hillsborough NH. It's a pretty little family owned place with spacious sites and friendly folks. Our overnight in New Hampshire qualifies us for a new state sticker, our first since...
Childhood Home Video Franklin Pierce Biography Video He was the dark horse candidate in the 1852, this son of a tavern keeper in rural New Hampshire. He's still a bit of a dark horse in our national history. Most Americans, if they recognize Franklin Pierce as one of...
We have personal rules for earning the right to place a state sticker on the map on the side of our T@B. We must visit a place of interest and do something there as well as spend at least one night in the state. Two years ago we drove through northern New Hampshire as...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.