News reports today are filled with stories of Hurricane Irene bearing down on the East Coast. Friends of mine from DC to Maine are bracing for the storm. After last year’s meager storm performance, the news media has been pumping up this particular hurricane and its pending disasters.
{ 0 comments }
This collection of videos peripherally deals with travel. The first video of an old Jay Leno show I found fascinating since I am an avid text messaging man, especially when funds are low and cell phone roaming charges are high. The second video is a comedy routine about New Hampshire. Not enough people visit my [...]
{ 0 comments }
The folk in my home state of New Hampshire will be grumbling. It seems that peak leaf peeping adventures are no longer considered to be in New Hampshire and Vermont or even in New England. Yes, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont are part of the top 10, but North Carolina tops this year’s TripAdvisor list after a survey of 2,300 travelers.
{ 0 comments }
After a wild week of repeated snowstorms, New England’s ski and snowboarding terrain is beckoning with a hefty blanket of pre-Christmas snow. Plus, with fewer seats carrying skiers and snowboarders to the West and the dropping price of gas, it looks like a banner year for New England’s resorts that have their own special mountain magic and provide a far different experience from the resorts out west.
{ 1 comment }
When working at her bookstore, White Birch Books, in North Conway, N.H., which is in the middle of the White Mountains, my daughter Laura gets all kinds of questions from tourists, but this one takes the cake.
{ 3 comments }
In New England, one of the rites of spring is maple sugaring. Across the region when the sap starts running, natives tap trees and carefully collect it in buckets then boil it down into a sweet delicacy enjoyed around the world.
{ 2 comments }
Think Christmas, and often it’s a Norman Rockwellish, New England-inspired image that comes to mind: fir trees, clapboard homes with smoke rising from chimneys, wreaths on doors, and, of course, a dusting of snow. No question, New England does Christmas right. Here’s where to go.
{ 0 comments }
The fall foliage season is upon us. Maine just announced its first official week of foliage in the far north and now the colors are creeping southwards across the country. From the reds, golds and oranges of the northeast to the brilliant yellows of the Rocky Mountains and California, here are five mountain resorts from rustic to elegant that are a perfect place to enjoy nature’s annual splendor.
{ 0 comments }
Hew Hampshire and Montana faced down the Department of Homeland Security and received assurances that their drivers licenses will be accepted at airports after the May deadline for Real ID.
{ 0 comments }
The Department and Homeland Security (DHS) and these states are playing a game of bureaucratic chicken. DHS laid down the law. Most states have complied or applied for legal waivers. These four have not. Come May 11, there may be a big problem.
{ 1 comment }
