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23 Jul 18, 04:48 PM |
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New England Road Trip - Pre Trip Report - Back Now new post
New England Road Trip
I am very excited, DH and I (both 56) and DD (24) are going on a fly drive to New England. Our dates are limited as I work in a school. I’d love to be there for the fall foliage but hopefully the longer hours of daylight and warmer weather will compensate. Our plan is to stay or visit an attraction in each of the 6 New England States so we are moving around quite a bit. We have chosen a mixture of hotels but at least if we don’t like any of them we won’t be there for long. We have booked flights with BA because their schedule seems to arrive at a more sensible time than Virgin, but we have booked our car with Virgin because their website made it very clear what was included in the price. All of the hotels are booked via Expedia. Apart from the hotels that are fixed (well, we’ve changed one already) none of the activities have been booked yet and may well change a few times before we actually make up our minds. The more I research, the more I realise that we could easily spend a lot more time at any one of our destinations, but we’ll enjoy what we can do and try not to regret anything that we miss. Fri 10 August BA flight to Boston – pick up car – drive to Best Western Cold Spring Plymouth for 2 nights Sat 11th Visit Plimoth Plantation Sun 12th Leave Plymouth – possibly visit Heritage Gardens – Drive to Hampton Inn & Suites West Yarmouth 3 nights Mon 13th Possibly ferry to Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard Tues 14th Explore Cape Cod Wed 15th Leave Cape Cod – Zoo at Providence – hotel Howard Johnson Mystic Thurs 16th Mystic Seaport – drive to Yankee Candle Shop mid afternoon – D Hotel Holyoke Fri 17th Billings Farm Museum – Kancamagus Lodge Lincoln (2 nights) Sat 18th Flume Gorge / Cannon Mountain Sun 19th Kancamagus Highway - drive to Lynwood Inn York harbour Mon 20th – Nubble Lighthouse – shopping mall – return car – Lenox Hotel Boston (4 nights) Tues 21st hop on/off bus tour, book shops, Baseball game? Wed 22nd freedom trail tea party ship Thurs 23rd Harvard/MIT museums (more book shops?) Fri 24th Morning sightseeing – mid afternoon go to airport Sat 25th Arrive home I will try and take plenty of photos and keep notes of what we actually do and I hope they are of interest to someone. Not long to go now. Edited at 02:04 PM. |
23 Jul 18, 07:11 PM |
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You leave Plymouth the day before we arrive there
It sounds like a fabulous trip! Hope you have the most amazing time!
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25 Jul 18, 02:38 PM |
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Sounds an amazing trip. Can't wait to hear all about it as are doing a similar one in May next year Have a great time.
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25 Jul 18, 02:52 PM |
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This sounds like my dream trip, excited to read your report
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29 Jul 18, 04:47 PM |
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Sounds fabulous looking forward to reading your report.
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29 Jul 18, 05:26 PM |
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Looking great, New England is up there with my favourite places in the USA. You will love Plimoth Plantation, we tried to catch the village inhabitants out but couldn’t manage it. Cape Cod is so beautiful.
We chose Nantucket over Martha’s Vineyard as it is slightly less touristy and not so full of the very rich! I’d like to go back and see MV though. The Kancamagus highway is also so lovely Surprised you haven’t included Maine in this plan? My favourite place up there is Bar Harbor, really wish I was there now. Oh and New England is the only part of America where chips are chips and not fries!
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30 Jul 18, 08:18 AM |
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We had originally included Bar Harbor but, with only a fortnight available to us, something had to give or we would have spent more time in the car than we want to. We are making a token step over the Maine border and having a night at York but Maine looks as though it could be a trip in its own right in the future.
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8 Aug 18, 08:47 PM |
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Sounds wonderful. Hope you have a great time. I will look forward to reading all about your trip.
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8 Aug 18, 10:22 PM |
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We’re staying at the Lenox for 5 nights before leaving on the 21st for NYC. Might pass you in the lobby!
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9 Aug 18, 06:03 PM |
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