Traveling Through New England

There are many places of interest to visit on the coast of New England. Out trip starts in the Hudson Valley of New York State. As we head east through Connecticut, the first place of interest we encounter is Gillette Castle, a mansion built in the form of a castle. The interior is beautiful with many interesting rooms.


Next we head east to the coast and Mystic Seaport. Mystic seaport is a recreation of a New England seaport town of the early 1800s. It includes demonstrations of the types of shops and industry such as a blacksmith shop that would be in such a village. In the bay is a recreation of the type of sailing ship of those days. That is me aboard it.


From Mystic we travel down the coast to The Breakers. Another interesting mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. The picture below the mansion shows the lovely gardens.





Also in Newport, Hammersmith Farm is where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier were married.



Next we head north to Plymouth, Massachusetts. Here is the original Plymouth Rock.


Here my wife and two granddaughters are aboard a replica of the Mayflower.

We also went whale watching in Plymouth.

Here we are in Salem, Mass. where the famous witch trials took place. A recreation of the trials takes place on the weekends. There are also many shops displaying items associated with witchcraft and other occult stuff.


After leaving Salem, we headed for Cape Cod and Martha's Vinyard.