Herb & Martha Discover America

huhtikuuta 2018 - heinäkuuta 2025

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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.
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Herb & Martha Discover America
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- Päivä 64
- lauantai 23. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 14.53
- 🌧 59 °F
- Korkeus: 33 ft
- Yhdysvallat Portland Head Lighthouse 43.623226, -70.20807543°37’24” N 70°12’29” W
More pictures--pics Herb took in Maine
23. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ 🌧 59 °F
Thes are some pics that Herb took.
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- Päivä 59
- maanantai 18. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 12.25
- ⛅ 79 °F
- Korkeus: 39 ft
- Yhdysvallat Boothby Square 43.655835, -70.25282543°39’21” N 70°15’10” W
Portland, Maine
18. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 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.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaNew England is gorgeous. Glad you enjoyed your time exploring.
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MatkaajaHa! We walked the enture Freedom Trail and it ended up at the USS Constitution. It was pretty cool except as you know the entire trail was the walk from Batan. We had blisters on all our toes. Had some awesome oysters though near the inn Paul Revere stayed in as well as JFK when he was there. Pretty interesting place. The history is truly palpable and we could almost leave Texas for New England ha!
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- Päivä 56
- perjantai 15. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 11.29
- ⛅ 63 °F
- Korkeus: 1 266 ft
- Yhdysvallat Leatherstocking Golf Course 42.711094, -74.92995442°42’40” N 74°55’48” W
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The Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown, NY
15. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 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-…;Lue lisää
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RV Adventures in America Impressive, huh?
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RV Adventures in America This is the actual sculpture
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RV Adventures in America This gentleman is spinning the treated and carded wool that was shorn from their sheep into wool.
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- Päivä 55
- torstai 14. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 21.21
- ⛅ 55 °F
- Korkeus: 1 516 ft
- Yhdysvallat Springfield Four Corners 42.8532, -74.8901342°51’12” N 74°53’24” W
Cooperstown, NY
14. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 55 °F
For whatever reason, FindPenguins only allows 10 photos, but I thought it would edifying if you saw some pics of Cooperstown.
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- Päivä 55
- torstai 14. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 18.32
- ⛅ 61 °F
- Korkeus: 1 253 ft
- Yhdysvallat National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 42.699937, -74.92321442°41’60” N 74°55’24” W
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Baseball Hall of Fame
14. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 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!Lue lisää
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RV Adventures in America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RatKhtboq2E
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- Päivä 53
- tiistai 12. kesäkuuta 2018
- ☁️ 72 °F
- Korkeus: 587 ft
- Yhdysvallat Niagara Falls 43.096214, -79.03773943°5’46” N 79°2’16” W
Niagara Falls, NY & ON
12. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 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.Lue lisää
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- Päivä 50
- lauantai 9. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 20.57
- ⛅ 72 °F
- Korkeus: 1 161 ft
- Yhdysvallat Midway Industrial Park 41.31596, -81.4691641°18’57” N 81°28’9” W
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
9. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 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/>

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.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Well, they certainly didn't age well.
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Matkaaja Me too, but older than teenage.
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- Päivä 46
- tiistai 5. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 10.00
- ⛅ 64 °F
- Korkeus: 948 ft
- Yhdysvallat Hudson Springs Lake 41.24532, -81.3860841°14’43” N 81°23’10” W
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Museum of Science and Industry
5. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 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.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaI have a hard time getting Jim to go into a museum (actually..not at all) so enjoy through you.
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RV Adventures in AmericaHerb is my third husband--I was exceptionally wise to chose a man who likes museums and shopping!
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Matkaaja There's no way you could get me to fly that thing.
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- Päivä 45
- maanantai 4. kesäkuuta 2018 klo 9.00
- ☀️ 64 °F
- Korkeus: 538 ft
- Yhdysvallat Cityfront Place 41.88784, -87.5686441°53’16” N 87°34’7” W
Navy Pier
4. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 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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MatkaajaWho would have thought a shiny bean could be so fun? 😊
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- Päivä 44
- sunnuntai 3. kesäkuuta 2018
- 🌙 61 °F
- Korkeus: 653 ft
- Yhdysvallat Field Museum 41.86626, -87.6169841°51’59” N 87°37’1” W
The Field Museum
3. kesäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ 🌙 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.Lue lisää
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MatkaajaThe Field Museum is amazing! I’m so glad you made the time to go there.
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MatkaajaOf course, Jessie makes a better dog. :)
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