Friday, October 5, 2012

New England Foliage: Day 6


Beautiful Foliage in front of the Concord Town House.


The sky above the foliage below in Concord.


The Minute Man statue.


Great foliage near Walden Pond.


My wife and I left Ogunquit under gray skies but finally saw the sun for the first time in three days as we hit I-95 heading south toward New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
We detoured to Andover, NH. Big mistake. Don’t waste your time. Infrastructure from hell. It’s a town that Mother Nature forgot.
Heading south again, we decided on a stop in Concord, Mass. Around the corner and down the road from downtown Concord is Minute Man National Historical Park where the Revolutionary War started with the “shot heard round the world.”
We drove through the University of Connecticut campus where I spent a good part of my childhood. Once a beautiful Ivy League-looking campus is now overdeveloped, with ongoing construction.
We spotted some excellent foliage driving through the small towns of Columbia, Coventry (birthplace of Nathan Hale), Andover and Bolton before reaching our destination in Southington, CT.
Next week it’s off to Vermont.

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