New England at Harvest Time

A few years ago John and I made a list of things we wanted to do together. We just checked one of those items off the list by going to New England last week. We flew into Providence, Rhode Island and checked out the Vanderbuilt mansions-unreal! Then we drove up the coast to Maine and meandered our way back down to Boston via New Hampshire. We stopped in a quaint little town called Freeport, Maine that had stores named, "When Pigs Fly", "Wicked Whoopies", and "Horny Toad" to name a few. We felt like we had stepped back to a relaxing, slower-paced time. We spent two days in Boston and wished we had had more time there. There is so much to do and so much life in that city, mainly due to the 70 colleges there. We walked the "Freedom Trail" that took us all over the city to historic and modern sites. We relived the times of the Revolutionary War from the Paul Revere home to the monument that commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill. We climbed all 294 steps to the top of the monument. Why? I don't know but my legs cried for two days because of it! Our main reason for going there was to see the Fall leaves and we were not dissapointed. They were breath-taking!