An enviable trip for sure (including the "near misses"!).

I loved "Love" and  "One Way" and a couple of others.

Overall, I liked to see the set very much.

Thanks, Christine for sharing these

Bulent

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2014-06-26 9:30 GMT+03:00 Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com>:
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Just a few road trip pics—nothing great.  We visited a lot of author homes, 
> but unfortunately no interior photography was allowed, so I spared you the 
> exterior shots of the houses.  I do include Mark Twain’s Study—an octagon 
> shaped building specifically built for him at his in-laws’ farm near Elmira, 
> NY—built so he could write undisturbed during his summer visits to the farm.  
> This building is now owned by Elmira College and located on campus.  There 
> was no student ambassador around to let us in, but I took some photos through 
> the windows and converted to BW.  They are included here.
>
> Visiting the author homes was great—fun to stand in Emerson’s study, the 
> bedrooms where Little Women was written (Concord, MA) and that tiny women in 
> Amherst, MA  penned all those delightful poems, and, of course, seeing the 
> Seven Gables that inspired the House of Seven Gables was fun as well (Salem, 
> MA).  Twain’s home in Hartford, CT is absolutely amazing and very well 
> preserved, but interestingly, the Emerson family STILL owns Emerson’s home:  
> the tour guide informed us, “We all work for the Emerson family.”  Something 
> really cool about that.  Sara Orne Jewett’s house in South Berwick, ME is 
> also a great house, but the town is not much to speak of.
>
> I’d never seen Philly, so we did all the historical stuff in one day, then 
> left early the next for Hartford et al.  Spent a few days in Boston—Freedom 
> Trail, Boat ride, and Museum of Fine Arts—the Copley collection there is 
> fantastic—then headed for Salem, MA.
>
> We also paid homage to author tombstones, but I spared you those photos as 
> well, though Sleepy Hollow was amazing—many pilgrims travel to these markers 
> and leave stones, pencils, pens, other trinkets—lots of small stones at 
> Dickinson’s marker.  Chronic dappled lighting made the markers somewhat of 
> challenge to photograph.  Famous people seem to love pretty spots near trees.
>
> We traveled for 16 days by car, moved on nearly every 1-3 days.  As I look 
> back now it was a dizzying pace, and the driving challenging: I nearly got us 
> killed at a small round-about in Concord, MA.
>
> And we drove 12 hours straight from Elmira, NY to Chicago.  The drive home 
> started early, and we had the road nearly to ourselves, enjoying the quiet, 
> morning fog, and the lovely tree studded hills and valleys of NY.  But then a 
> large doe jumped out in front of us.  Fortunately, Darrel swerved right, the 
> doe kept left, leaving no damage to car, person, or animal.  I gushed over 
> Darrel for his quick response, and the trip continued uneventful, that is, 
> until we were literally 5 minutes from home.  At a speed about 15 miles per 
> hour, I turned a corner for the final 5 minute stretch home, only to have to 
> slow down to let one of our neighborhood deer, traveling about .5 miles per 
> hour, cross the road.  Uncanny!
>
> Anyway, here are the pics!  Cheers, Christine
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