She's a witch! Burn her!

Witches float, if you are not a witch you sink--either way you are sunk - so we learned in Salem. I (Katie) would certainly have been a witch had I lived in the time--I know too much about contraception, I guess. We also went to Plymouth today--saw the pebble that is Plymouth Rock-disappointing. The Mayflower II was interesting but too hot to enjoy-looked around Plymouth. Tonight, we are staying at the Hawthorne Hotel, one of the "1000 Places to See Before You Die" Fabulous!!

Go Sox

Never have we seen so many Red Sox fans in one place! Katie is now the owner of a new baseball cap just to fit in. Doug has used the word sweltering 55 times, and stifling 37 times. He is right. It is hot and humid here, but we are having a great time. Today we walked the Freedom Trail in Boston and stayed at an old YWCA. Had a fire drill just before bed. Turns out, Sam Adams was quite ugly--Paul Revere was the poster child for about everything including the Sam Adams beer label . We are learning a lot about American History they didn't teach us in school
In this pic we are sitting on the Democratic donkey at old city hall. If you are a Republican you stand in opposition just a few inches in front.

B I

Today we woke up in Montauk and walked to have breakfast. Then we got on the ferry, to go see Block Island. We walked to town and rented scooters to ride around town. We saw the cematary, Normans property, and most everything else there is to see. It was a good day and we are excited for tomorrow to see Boston!






Nana's summer home in B.I

leaving nyc

Today we spent mostly waiting. Two hours to see the Statue of Liberty, more hours for the ferries to and from. We looked briefly at Ellis Island and paid our respects at Ground Zero, then cought a train at Penn Station. We were amazed at the number of people moving at a blistering pace there. Jackie mastered the subway in under a day - even the turnstiles!

The First Day!

Today we had many new adventures! It was our first time doing a Red Eye Flight, Boy was that tiring! After having to stay up all night we checked in at the Larchmont Hotel and headed off. We tried to act like natives on the subway but soon everyone knew. Because we couldn't the turnstiles. After that we headed off to the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Central Park where we jumped on a horse and buggy ride, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and lots of subway trains. Tomorrow we plan to go see Ground Zero and the Statue of Liberty. We are having a great vacation so far!!!

Missing McCall This Year

The details are falling into place, the bags are being packed and the credit card charges are showing up. Shortly we will hit the road for two very busy weeks of travel (Degges style). Doug grew up going to McCall Idaho every year and you can understand why--it is beautiful and we will miss being there with the Morgans this year. I grew up with rare vacations but when they occurred we took some kind of strange, complex and circuitous itinerary. So this year at my request, we are going on that kind of trip. This requires us to prioritize our top sites to see in any one area, we know we can't see it all, but we are going on the road in search of adventure, friendly people, good memories and funky places to stay! Of course the road trip is different today, what with blog postings and GPS and all. But we still plan to sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", fight over the front seat and get lost at least once. We do hope you will log in from time to time and drop us a note on this site--we will post our postcards here.

Here is the plan:
July 29 Red eye flight to NYC
July 30 sight-seeing in NYC and night at the Larchmont Hotel
July 31 more NYC and then the 5:50 train to Montauk (like in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) night at the Montauk Motel
Aug 1 ferry to Block Island, to explore Nana's childhood summer home. Night at the Narragansett
Aug 2 Ferry to Providence, pick up car and drive to Boston. Freedom Trail and night in the Hotel 140 (a converted YMCA)
Aug 3 Plymouth Rock then to Salem night at the Hawthorne Hotel
Aug 4 long day driving to Philadelphia
Aug 5 Explore historic Philadelphia drive to Lancaster in the evening-night at Walnut Lawn B&B
Aug 6 Explore Lancaster County and Gettysburg --night at James Getty's Hotel
Aug 7 Drive to Williamsburg night at the Fife and Drum Inn
Aug 8 explore Jamestown and maybe drive to Monticello. End up in Killmarnock, VA with our friends Steve and Lori Richardson for a little rest before we fly home from Richmond on the 11th