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In October of 2024, we decided to experience a quaint little rail road trip from Reading, in Berks County, PA, north and east about 50 miles to Jim Thorpe. The excursion is billed as a “Fall Foliage” event, and we…
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Sunday was the big Apple Fest, heralded as the biggest festival to hit Strafford since, well, the last Apple Fest. We hoped to see lots of vendors and pocket some swag, cider, cheese and other stuff to take home. We…
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Saturday’s weather looked promising, for once. The sky was blue, and mostly cloudy but that’s better than solid overcast and drizzle any day. We fortified ourselves, and headed for the Festival. Tunbridge is about 10 miles or so south of…
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On Friday morning, I looked at a map and saw that there was a road running north and south right along the Connecticut River a few miles east. The Connecticut River, of course, is the border between Vermont and New…
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Today, we’d visit Randolph, a few dozen miles away, where nephew Jeremy had recently purchased an historic old home in town. He was quite pumped about the needed renovations and the unique architectural qualities of the place. Originally put up…
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When we got up, it was cloudy and cool but at least it had stopped raining. I took a look outside to get a feel for the foliage colors. It looked like Ireland. After some consultation, we decided to tour…
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September, 2018 – we planned a trip up to Vermont to see my mother and other relatives who’ve now moved there from Florida permanently. (Yeah. They lived in Florida, and decided to retire to Vermont. Go figger…) We hoped to…
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Westward Ha! – Innocents on the Road to Perdition In the summer of 2012, we embarked on a near-cross country journey in a 24 year old Fleetwood Bounder motor home. I, my wife Melissa, and her older brother Howell (‘Hal’)…
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