Another big driving day from New York to Vermont to New Hampshire to Maine!

New York: Before I left my campground, I had to see Moreau Lake itself, a beautiful Adirondack lake ending its season now that Labor Day is over.

Vermont: Before I began my adventure, Joel requested a postcard from each state I visit, providing me with stamps to facilitate my mailing them. (He’s saving these for me to put into a collage when I get home. 🙂 ) I’ve kept this up in every state – I think I’m now at 23 states + Canada – finding, writing, and sending postcards all along my way. Sometimes acquiring postcards is easy, sometimes it’s a bit more challenging. The search for a Vermont postcard lead me to a gift shop along the highway in the Green Mountains. In the shop, the guy working suggested a waterfall and a gorge – all on my route. He said if I see these, I’ll see the best that Vermont has to offer. So, off to Thundering Brook Falls and the Quechee Gorge I went!

New Hampshire: I thought I’d find a little town with a little gift shop in the White Mountains to get my New Hampshire postcard. Wrong! Ultimately, I found one at the Lincoln Woods Visitor Center! I pulled off the road at one trailhead to take a look at the trail and take a few photos.

Maine: While checking into my campground, the proprietress showed me how easily I could walk from my campsite to a suspension bridge onto a little island they own with a one mile trail looping around the island. Since I had been sitting and driving so much, I followed her instructions and, much to my delight, got a kick out of the long and high bridge and the foliage.

Only one section of the bridge! It went UP, ACROSS, and then DOWN!

 

View from Hastings Island, Bethel, ME.

 

I love how the light plays on this multi-trunked tree.