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Bay State Getaway 2022

Bay State Getaway Recap

Blogposts from our Bay State Getaway are finally complete. This post provides an outline of where we went, what we saw and links to posts associated with each stop.  If you haven’t seen any of the posts, you may want to start at the beginning. Near the bottom of each post, there is a green […]

Waterfalls, History, and Art

As departure-day approaches, this post will finish off our extensive list of things to see during our stay. With more covered bridges, waterfalls, breweries, and a few closures to visit – along with a couple of revisits, I’m sure we’ll be back to the Bay State in the very near future. Click on the first […]

A Vanderbilt Mansion

Our Hyde Park Overnight is nearing its end, but not before we stop to see how the other half lived. How would you spend a huge inheritance received during the Gilded Age? Build a mansion (or two or three), of course! Click on the first photo in each group and scroll to see the square photos […]

Hyde Park Overnight

While scouring the map a reasonable distance from our condo, Jim ran across Hyde Park, NY. President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately came to mind, and he read that FDR’s home, Presidential Library and Museum are all on one estate.  Not far away is Eleanor Roosevelt’s retreat and one (of many) Vanderbilt Mansions. We set our sights […]

Bridges, Blooms & Beyond

As we near the half-way point of our Bay State Getaway, we have one more day trip that covers some ground – although only half the ground we covered on our last day trip. Today we saw bridges, flowers, waterfalls, potholes, and we discovered Galumpkis. The colors are coming on nicely, which just adds to […]

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