From September 15 to October 5, 2021, I’m off in the 2001 Audi to camp in Acadia National Park. Like most of my road trips, there are many stops to see the sights (and visit old friends) along the way. This is a particularly memorable trip, full of emotion (Flight 93 National Memorial), history (Gettysburg National Military Park), scenery (literally ALL of Vermont and New Hampshire, plus Acadia National Park) – and the changing colors (from Burlington to Lake Placid / Saranac Lake, New York). I even learn what Lake Erie “sea glass” is. The country continues to amaze me.
THE ROUTE:
- Chicago
- Monroeville, Pennsylvania
- Wilmerding, Pennsylvania: Visit my dad’s childhood home (soon to be demolished) and high school, formerly Westinghouse Memorial HS and now a charter school for the creative arts
- Somerset County, Pennsylvania: Flight 93 National Memorial
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Gettysburg National Military Park
- Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
- Warwick, New York: Ochs Orchard for apple picking
- Boonton, New Jersey: Pyramid Mountain and the Tripod Rock hike
- Lakesville, Connecticut: Lion’s Head hike, part of the Appalachian Trail
- Woodstock, Vermont: Quechee State Park; US President Calvin Coolidge homestead; Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
- Plymouth, New Hampshire: Newton Natural Area Trail hike to Rainbow Falls
- Biddeford Pool, Maine
- Bar Harbor, Maine: Acadia National Park
- Burlington, Vermont
- Lake Placid, New York: Visit the relics of the 1980 (and 1932) Olympic Winter Games
- Saranac Lake, New York
- Erie, Pennsylvania: Look for sea glass along the shores of Lake Erie
- Chicago