• The Trip of Our Lives Recap

    This is an outline of Road Trip: Part 1, Pre-cruise: Vancouver, Princess Cruise: Sea, Princess Cruise: Land, Road Trip: Part 2. Enjoy!

  • Seeking the Sun Recap

    Posts from our 2023 southeast winter road trip are complete. This post provides an outline of what we saw and links to posts about each stop.

  • Bay State Getaway Recap

    Blogposts from our Bay State Getaway are finally complete. This post provides an outline of what we saw and links to posts about each stop.

  • Hershey Gardens

    Chocolate and More Recap

    When you think about the every day blah blah, sometimes [...]

  • Civil War Museum

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  • Hotel Hershey from Hershey Gardens

    The Hotel Hershey and Hershey Gardens

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  • Dutch Wonderland

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  • Philly Finale

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  • Philly Part 2

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  • Philadelphia, PA

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  • Hershey, Pennsylvania

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  • Indian Echo Caverns

    Indian Echo Caverns

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  • Chocolate and So Much More

    We covered a lot of ground on this one-week family [...]

  • New England 2012 Recap

    It took us way too long to visit New England, [...]

  • Rockland and Vicinity

    On our last day in Maine, we dry our tears [...]

  • Acadia National Park, Maine

    This is one day I was really looking forward to. [...]

  • The Olson House

    If you are familiar with Andrew Wyeth’s famous painting, Christina’s [...]

  • Bath and Pemaquid

    This was one of my favorite days in Maine. We [...]

  • Rockland, Maine

    Remember these pictures from my last post? Well keep those in [...]

  • Samoset Resort, Rockland, Maine

    What About Bob?

    There are advantages to visiting places off season. We never [...]

  • Mirror Lake 2

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  • Local Brew

    On yet another rainy day, we decided to check out [...]

  • Mount Washington Hotel

    Grand History, Modern Luxury “As grand as the history behind [...]

  • Beautiful Vermont

    An old boyfriend of mine went on and on about Vermont all the [...]

  • Gazebo in the White Mountains, NH

    Another Day in Paradise!

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  • Franconia Notch State Park, north of Lincoln, NH

    Franconia Notch State Park

    One of the benefits of our Bluegreen ownership is that [...]

  • The Trip that Started it All Recap

    While a series of trips to see family renewed my [...]

  • Taliesin West

    Located in the beautiful Sonoran desert in northeast Scottsdale, we [...]

  • Cibola Vista Resort Pool

    By the Time I Get to Phoenix

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  • Desert View Watchtower

    To start at the beginning of this series, visit The [...]

  • Grand Canyon

    Grand Canyon

    Grand Canyon is at the TOP of our favorites list in Arizona! [...]

  • The Petrified Forest

    Route 66 – East of Flagstaff

    We shouldn't have included the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest into this day trip. The drive back was way too long, and into the sun.

  • Route 66 – West of Flagstaff

    We spent many hours on Route 66 on 2 day-trips. Lots of history, nostalgic signs, old cars, burger joints and burros took us back in time.

  • Montezuma Castle

    A Castle and a Ghost Town

    Day 3 was a splendid day with a stop at Montezuma Castle and lunch atop the "J" mountain in Jerome. Both were relaxing and full of history!

  • Verde Canyon Railroad

    Tuzigoot, choo choo

    Day 2 included two great stops that were pretty close to Sedona to make this a wonderful (relatively short) day.

  • Barrio Cafe, Phoenix

    Day 1: MKE to PHX to Sedona

    This post starts off with great Mexican food and an alternate route to get us off the Interstate and into our fabulous Arizona vacation!