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Herb & Martha Discover America

April 2018 - July 2025
  • RV Adventures in America
  • Herb Newman
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I am a recently retired nurse and my husband and I have just sold our house and we are going to full-time RV until we get tired of it.
There is so much of this country that I haven't seen. Herb has seen a lot more of it, but it was 50 yrs ago. Read more
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    We took this open air narrated tour of Portland.
    A city of windows.Portland Head Lighthouse.Schooner tour of Casco Bay.Sunset from the bay.Boston manages to blend modern and historical in a classy way.Paul Revere's House (yeah, they don't allow pictures!)The Old North Church, cue The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.Peaks IslandPeaks Island, looking north.

    Portland, Maine

    June 18, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F

    We spent a week at the KOA in Saco and had a wonderfully mellow time. Maine is green and the weather was very temperate, in the seventies most days. We took a short narrated tour of Portland on an old firetruck and learned all sorts of things that I did not know, like that Portland is the most populous city in Maine, but only has 68,000 people. It’s an old town, but has burned to the ground three times. Looking at the town, I see tons of red brick buildings and tons and tons of windows. I have never seen a place with so many windows.

    Tuesday we took a schooner tall ship tour of Casco Bay. Sailing is one of those mindful things that are so zen. The wind in your face and the smell of the open sea makes all of your ordinary worries of the day seem very small by comparison. Later we drove to Portland Head Light to take some pictures. It’s a beautiful site.

    Wednesday, we drove to Boston. No one will be surprised to hear traffic is horrendous and parking fees outrageous. We walked a part of the Freedom Trail. We saw the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere’s House and the Old North Church. Boston is such a vibrant, modern city, yet around every corner there’s a memorial to the American Revolution. I started a conversation with a woman behind me looking at The Old North Church and asked if they still make school children memorize the Longfellow poem, The Ride of Paul Revere, and she said, with heated exasperation in a thick Australian accent, that she had to memorize the "bloody poem" in Oz! This a great hip hop version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dKJ75F3tj8

    Thursday we took the ferry over to Peaks Island. The ferry is the only way to get there. It’s a small island with some remarkable houses and even more remarkable scenery.

    Friday was a low key day as we preparing for the trek to New Jersey.    Read more

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    The Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown, NY

    June 15, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F

    Since we had the extra day, we decided to check out The Farmer's Museum. It's a converted farm and is set up as a "living" museum. Craftsmen dress in 1820s costume and demonstrate crafts such as spinning and apothecary and there's even a blacksmith shop where they make nails and such. They grow crops and have some farm animals. They bring school kids through there by the bus load so they can see where and how our food and textiles come from. It's a great museum!

    The Cardiff Giant is on exhibit here. I recently read an article about the great hoaxes of the 19th century, and the Cardiff Giant was one of those. Fascinating to see! I me it looks like a crude sculpture and I cannot imagine anyone would think it was real! <https://www.history.com/news/the-cardiff-giant-…;    Read more

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    Tony will always be my favorite Padres.Trevor has been selected to the Hall of Fame and will be inducted this year.Anyone but me hear Hell's Bells playing?I love that they gave the "Who's on First" comedy routine by Abbott and Costello its own exhibit.1A collage of some of my faves.

    Baseball Hall of Fame

    June 14, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 61 °F

    This is one of the really good ones! The marvelously quaint little town that seems to have been frozen in time about the same week that Abner Doubleday invented (or not) baseball. That they manage to create the whole atmosphere without it looking like cheap dressing makes it even more admirable. The buildings really are that old and they are in use as store fronts and offices.

    The Hall of Fame is really quite beautiful and well-arranged. The first floor is dedicated to the Hall of Famers. I like the bas-relief plaques. The second and third floors are a series of exhibits about baseball and the men who played the game. All of it well done. As long-suffering San Diego Padre fans, much of it is bittersweet. I think the museum would be quite interesting to someone who is not a baseball fan, but it's heaven to the baseball lover!    Read more

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    Niagara Falls, NY & ON

    June 12, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F

    Niagara Falls is kind of like the Grand Canyon--it's singular majesty makes it a bucket list item the world wide. But it had another significance for Herb and I. It was the closest point we would be going to that would allow us to meet a long-time Facebook friend, Hilde Wagner. For many years, Hilde and I have posted, commented, replied, PM'd, and never met face-to-face. I am pleased to say that we rectified that. Hilde and her daughter, Erika, drove the 90 miles from Kitchener to Niagara Falls to have lunch with us on the Canadian side of the Falls. It was a delightful afternoon! Both Hilde and I are notorious introverts, polite small talk is hardly our strong suit, but we talked for hours. Herb and Erika, normally more garrulous took a back seat for a while.

    After we got to the campground Monday, we drove the 12 miles to the Falls and got a look at the Falls. The sheer size of the Falls are completely mind-boggling! We weren't able to take any of the tours or boats where a tour guide could overwhelm us with the massive amount of water that rushes around Goat Island to form the American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and Horseshoe Falls. The best views of the Falls are from the Canadian side and we got some amazing views.

    I have had a good sense of magnetic direction for much of my life. I have lost a good deal of it, but I can usually pinpoint north by studying the sunlight.
    Some things are a given: Fresh water rivers east of the Continental Divide flow south and east, toward the Atlantic Ocean. Fresh water rivers west of the Continental Divide flow south and west, toward the Pacific Ocean. The water flows over the Niagara Falls is backwards—the river (and the Falls) flows north! Hilde reminded me that the Great Lakes are connected and water flows from Lake Superior to Lake Michigan, to Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and through the St Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean. If you look at the picture of the lakes you can see that Lake Erie, even though it is somewhat south of Lake Ontario, the water will flow from Erie to Ontario, regardless of the fact that the connection is northward.    Read more

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    Roy Orbison exhibit1StonesMichael's gloveMichael's jacketCool transparent guitar.Johnny Cash's guitar1Journey's Hall of Fame plaque (for Sarah and Jacque and their teenage obsession with Steve Perry).

    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    June 9, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F

    We got set up with a campground halfway between Cleveland and  Akron. We got up early Friday to go to the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. It was impressive from the very first and we loved it! It is absolutely the place where senior citizens go to feel young again! They did an excellent job of showing how the roots of rock 'n roll coalesced from jazz, gospel, rhythm 'n blues, country, and folk music. There is even an exhibit about the conservative mind-set (not unlike today's) railed against rock 'n roll as an invention of the devil. The music is loud, pervasively loud, but it draws you in to each section as you go around. The best thing is that as it unwinds, more or less chronologically, it has something for every age. There are items on display from every age and type of music, right up to a stage dress for Taylor Swift.

    Incidentally, their cafe showcases local chefs and is excellent. On the food side, a very old friend of ours suggested we go by her nephew's new delicatessen, which we did. Everything there is fresh--farm-to-table fresh and was excellent! <https://larderdb.com/&gt;

    Today we went to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They don't allow pictures, but it was rather ho-hum frankly. I was somewhat under the weather with a mild gastrointestinal issues, so that might account for my disappointment.    Read more

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    This steam engine attained a speed of 110+1The Wright Bros. airplane.The US captured this German sub in 1944.

    Museum of Science and Industry

    June 5, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F

    Monday we did the Museum of Science and Industry. Very interesting--but we were about museumed out at that point, and although I have discovered that if I take them for a long walk in the morning, and another long walk after dinner that tend to do well, they need more outside time and attention (yeah, I know--who'd a thunk it?). 

    Loved it though. There were scads and scads of kids and it was loud. but we had a good time.    Read more

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    Navy Pier

    June 4, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F

    Navy Pier we did 'cause you haven't seen Chicago unless you do the Navy Pier and take pictures of The Bean, so here are the requisite pics:

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    The Field Museum
    Cool chandelier.Bid sucker!Panorama of a big dinosaur.Diorama: Don't be an ass!One of their earliest specimen.Doesn't look like a whale to me!Cool diorama.

    The Field Museum

    June 3, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 61 °F

    After taking the train into town, we started out the day at Al's with an Italian beef. It was much better than the Chicago dog. For the uninitiated, a Chicago Italian Beef is smoked, shredded beef with sauteed green and red bell peppers and onions. Pretty good, actually!

    The Field Museum was fantastic! There was a special exhibition of mummies (wasn't allowed to photograph) that was wonderful. Many of the items on exhibit have been there for more than a hundred years.  I recently finished a fictionalized account of the rivalry between two paleontologists whom were responsible for the discovery of ancient dinosaur bones in the Dakotas about the time of Custer's Last Stand. I love that kind of stuff! The book gave me the understanding of what they went through back then and the bones provided a framework for the story. One of the things I really liked was how great the dioramas are. The animals were posed in family groupings and even their expressions were perfect.    Read more

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