Good to Be Home

Yes, we're back home in Nashua, NH, after a 14-day road trip and thankfully we had great weather all along the route. Patrick's Jeep logged 4,500 miles on our travels from NH to Maine then to Canada and back again. We found out that our U.S. Passport cards did work at the border crossings. We also had our passports with us (just in case).

This road trip was a celebration of sorts — the 27th 🥂 anniversary of our first date in May 1997.  We celebrated that event on a 2-day stop in Bar Harbor, ME, that included a visit to Acadia National Park. The park contains Cadillac Mountain, which is the tallest mountain on the U.S. Atlantic Coast. Here we walked on exposed granite domes and glacial erratics. The views at this summit are so popular in season that reservations are needed to drive up; luckily, our visit was a week before the start of reservations.

While in Maine, we visited with former VA neighbors and friends, who relocated to Brunswick, a few years before we also relocated to New England. They showed us an nature preserve where daffodils, forget me nots and daffodils were in colorful bloom.

In addition to seeing many new-to-us places, we enjoyed a first-time meet-up with blog friends in Canada, a wonderful experience and we're glad that they were available to meet us on this trip.

Thanks to Rain, who we met in Saint John, New Brunswick, at the Reserving Falls. This very unique location will be posted about later. You can find Rain's recipes and artwork at https://www.rainfrancescreations.com. 

Also, thanks to Marie and Rick, who not only met us where they live on Prince Edward Island, but showed us some of their favorite walking places and shared an outdoor picnic lunch The above photos were taken on one of our excursions. While no photos of our meet-up will be posted here, you can see Marie's wonderful nature shots at https://islandmusingswithmarie.blogspot.com.

Here in New England, we are most familiar with grey squirrels and on another walk with Marie and Rick, we were introduced to the red squirrel. These were very used to humans bearing treats in the form of unshelled peanuts. This species range includes most of Canada, the southern half of Alberta and the southwestern coast of British Columbia; the southern half of Alaska; the Rocky Mountains area of the U.S. and northern half of the eastern U.S. I've never seen one here in Nashua, NH.

As anyone who has been away for a few days or longer knows, homecoming brings the usual litany of laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning and bill paying 😟 — all of which we've been doing. As Dorothy famously said in the 1939 film,The Wizard of Oz —There's no place like home. We wholeheartedly concur with that sentiment.

There were other highlights of this trip; however, the joy of meeting fellow bloggers was the biggest. Both meet-ups were wonderful and highly recommended if you're ever traveling and get a similar chance — just do it !

Future posts will highlight more of our travels. Thanks to all for the well wishes.