Category Archives: US – miscellaneous

Crowded and cold

Posted on November 14, 2018 by simpletravelourway

Whenever we travel we need to make choices matching best places to visit with the best time of year to be there. We prefer to visit places when the weather is warm, and there’s little chance of rain. Planning our 9-month … Continue reading →

Posted in US - miscellaneous | Tagged Cape May, New Jersey, road trip, travel | 8 Comments

What can happen to your camera in the rain

Posted on November 8, 2018 by simpletravelourway

We take lots and lots of photos as we travel, and our cameras may be our most essential travel “tools”. We also take them for granted. When we hiked in blowing sand in Nevada or pouring rain in Iceland, we … Continue reading →

Posted in US - miscellaneous | Tagged bird watching, birds, Cape May, mute swan, New Jersey, photography, road trip across the US, South Cape May's Meadow, travel, yellow-ruled warbler | 13 Comments

CT in 3 acts

Posted on November 2, 2018 by simpletravelourway

We generally choose travel destinations for their potential. How wrong can we go visiting a national park, the seashore, or a great museum? On occasion, we steer our trip route to visit family or friends. On those visits, our pace … Continue reading →

Posted in US - miscellaneous | Tagged AirBnB, Clyde's Cider Mill, Connecticut, Hammonasset State Park, Hudsonian godwit, Iggy's Doughboys & Chowder House, Milford, road trip across the US, travel | 4 Comments

Travel plans for what to do? Not much.

Posted on October 26, 2018 by simpletravelourway

We have our travel destinations planned out for a year in advance, but, if you ask us what we plan to do while we’re at most of them, we don’t have a clue. We had booked our next stop at … Continue reading →

Posted in US - miscellaneous | Tagged art, Barnstable, Edward Gorey, Edward Gorey house, Hyannis, Massachusetts, road trip across the US, Sandy Neck State Park, travel, Yarmouth Port | 9 Comments

A first trip to Cape Cod: photographed in watercolor

Posted on October 21, 2018 by simpletravelourway

In our extensive travels there are still lots and lots of places we haven’t been to – some by design and others because it just wasn’t on our way to anywhere else. It was high time, we thought, to make … Continue reading →

Posted in US - miscellaneous | Tagged around the US travel, Cape Cod, gray seals, Head of the Meadow beach, Massachusetts, photography, Sony RX100 II camera, travel, Truro, Watercolor, Wellfleet, Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary | 9 Comments

Maine

Posted on October 17, 2018 by simpletravelourway

We love the state of Maine – enough to have lived there many years ago when we were both teachers. We didn’t live near the coast but in the northern woods on the Kennebec River near the small town of … Continue reading →

Posted in US - miscellaneous | Tagged Bingham, Farnsworth Art Museum, Freeport, Maine, Owl’s Head, road trip across the US, Rockland, Rockwell Kent, travel, Viles Arboretum, Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park | 4 Comments

Rest days turned into touring days

Posted on October 12, 2018 by simpletravelourway

Sometimes good intentions are abandoned for better plans. We intended to spend our few days at a lovely Charlotte, Vermont AirBnB resting and reading. Then we talked to our host and discovered that, just a few miles down the road, the … Continue reading →

Posted in US - miscellaneous | Tagged AirBnB, around the US travel, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jerry Geier, Shelburne, Shelburne Farm, Shelburne Museum, Ticonderoga, travel, Vermont | 7 Comments