Trees and Travels

     During a visit to Rhode Island, I had the pleasure of stopping for the afternoon at the  Cliff Walk  in Newport. This was a lovely, peaceful stroll down a path with the ocean on one side and rich architecture on the other side. The path is 3.5 miles long, but we did not get to the whole thing.      There are a couple different spots from which you can start the Cliff Walk. We parked and started at Narragansett Ave. It is metered parking, but was only a few bucks for three hours. This is also the spot called Forty Steps. A guy got his credit card stuck in the parking meter... He was trying to put it in the slot where the receipt comes out, if I remember correctly...      Anyway, we checked out the Forty Steps area. It was very nice, but a little bit crowded. There were a couple bathrooms there that had long lines. The Forty Steps themselves are stairs leading down to an area good for ocean viewing. There are rocky edges vis...

Starting the Day      We went to Washington, D.C. as a day trip leaving out of Richmond, Virginia. It took a couple hours to get out there. Beforehand, we made parking reservations online to find the cheapest and most convenient location to park. This really took out a lot of hassle and probably saved money as well.     MLK National Mall      The first stop was the White House. It was interesting to see the amount of security protecting the place. You'd think the president lives there or something! (Hah.) We didn't really do anything other than look at it, but it is possible to take a  tour .      Next, we went to several memorial sites within the National Mall area. We saw Lincoln, Jefferson, Vietnam War, Korean War, WWII, Martin Luther King Jr., and FDR memorials. There is also the Washington monument which can be seen from most of these areas. There are just so many memorials around here that it's hard to make ...

     After visiting Provincetown (and Boston . . . I'll post about that another time), we headed toward Maine to one of the destinations that excited us most while planning our trip.      If you check out the map, you can see that Acadia is located on Mt. Desert Island, yet is still pretty easy to get to. These are the locations we visited during our two days in the park:      View the full map  here .       While you're driving in and throughout Acadia, you often drive in and out of National Park Service lands. Make sure you go get the park pass at the visitor center or Park Loop Road entrance to avoid getting in trouble!       Anyway, most of the main attractions in Acadia are located on the eastern part of the island. Most of these spots are located on a one-way Park Loop Road . This is slightly inconvenient, but there are some other ways to navigate using non-park roads or riding ...

     On July 13th, we visited Provincetown, Massachusetts. I will preface this by saying that we did not actually spend any time in the town! Instead, we were enchanted by the  Breakwater Walk , which is a path made of boulders and stones leading through the water across to the outermost parts inside the Cape Cod Bay.      We managed to find free parking, though I couldn't tell you which street it was on. It was only roughly ten minutes from the start of the path.      The walk was a fun one. It took us about an hour to get across. The boulders are laid unevenly in many areas, so it does take a little bit of effort to make your way to the other side.          Once we got to the end of the walk, we reached the sandy outer parts of the cape. Upon walking a little father, we came to a small lighthouse. It is the  Wood End Lighthouse . It's a small lighthouse, but still worth wandering to.   ...

     From July 8th through July 24th of this year, my boyfriend and I went on a lovely road trip in the Northeast starting from Norfolk, VA where my boyfriend goes to school.      Many of my coming posts and videos will be from that trip, since it is still fresh in my mind! I will not make posts in the same order the map goes though and may not make a post for every single post on that map.      As for the map widget I used . . . It's kind of nifty, isn't it? I made it on Google My Maps. It's useful for making a map to show someone online such as how I used it in this post, but I wouldn't use it for much else other than a visual. My Maps is not very user-friendly in my opinion.      Anyway, I'm off to film a little intro video for YouTube. I'm thinking that Provincetown, MA will be my next post . . . Hmmm :)