Hello dear readers, old friends, and new followers! If you're just joining us, welcome to our retirement travel blog! We started this blog a few years ago when planning an epic vacation through the middle states of the US for our first retirement road trip. I use the blog to help with planning, organizing, and soliciting ideas and recommendations from you all! Our Middle States trip was a great success. So earlier this year we made a not-quite-as-ambitious trip along the Edges of South Florida. And with each trip, we've learned more about how we like to travel and what our limitations are.
Now armed with that information, we're ready to get our next trip planning underway! We've both had a goal of getting to all fifty states; I just need to visit Vermont while DH still needs Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, and Delaware. (I say I need Delaware, too, because I was under the age of two when my parents took me there.)
We're calling this trip Exploring the Northeast US because we're going to visit all four states that DH needs as well as some in between that we've been to before.
We live in the southern US, so we're choosing Virginia Beach to be our launch point. We'll have a few travel days to get there, but we're saving South Carolina and North Carolina for another trip... or we'd never get started on the Northeast before we would need to be home!
Our loose itinerary at this point looks like this:
- Virginia Beach
- Southern Delaware including Fenwick Island where I hope to meet a 3rd cousin
- Northern Delaware
- American Revolutionary War stuff on the way to and through New Jersey
- Albany, NY
- Saratoga Springs, NY (our DVC friends, IYKYK)
- Burlington, VT
- Montpelier, VT
- Cross New Hampshire on the Kanc
- Bangor, ME
- Coastal drive Down East, ME - and cross over to Canada
- Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park
- Coastal drive to Portland, ME
- Ogunquit, ME
- Derry, NH to visit my uncle, aunt, and cousins
- Bennington, VT and Germantown, NY
- Hershey, PA
- Shenandoah National Park
There will be lighthouses, battlefields, and forts, of course. Cheese, creemees, and syrup. Boat rides on lakes and intercoastal waterways. Scenic drives, winding roads, mountain-scapes. State parks and museums. And maybe some leaf-peeping if we aren't too early.
If you have any recommendations of things to see or do, hotels or inns to stay at, or places to eat - or anything else - let us know in the comments!
~ Cindy D.
If you can, visit Peaks Island while you’re near Portland. It’s delightful!
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