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Sunday, June 15. 2008

A few great places to visit in the Northeast

A re-post from last spring:



Mohonk. My Gramp's favorite place, and one of my Pa's favorites, if you don't include Tuscany or Norway. When you arrive, your first view of the place in the woods�is astonishing. Great rock-climbing in the Gunks.


Tanglewood. Stay in Lenox, or at the 200 year-old �Red Lion in Stockbridge, not too far from Maggie's Farm.


Chatauqua.�Yes, it still exists and is going strong, with mental stimulation.


The Mount Washington Hotel. A grand year-round place, if you ski or snowshoe.


Chatham Bars Inn.�Mostly summer, on the elbow of the Cape. My preference for the Cape is early September: water is warm, the crowds thin out, and the migratory birds are everywhere.


Monhegan Island. Get away from it all, even more so than Cuttyhunk.


Wellfleet. The real old regular-folks Cape, without the nouveau riche of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard and their Hummers.


Photo: Monhegan Island, from this guy's photo site

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, Travelogues and Travel Ideas at 14:14 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Mohonk is beautiful. I want to go, but I've got to wait for the wife to get home first. The we'll go.

Your Grandfather knew how to pick'm...
#1 Habu on 2007-08-23 17:04 (Reply)
I have photos of my gramps fishing on the Mohonk lake with a straw hat and a corn-cob pipe.
#1.1 BD on 2007-08-23 17:18 (Reply)
I have stayed at the Mt. Washington Hotel and the Chatham Bars Inn. Both are beautiful. The skiing at the former is among the best in the east. The serenity at the latter is also among the best in the east (or was, it was many moons ago that I was there and progress may have intruded).
#2 Knucklehead (Link) on 2007-08-23 17:14 (Reply)
Lucky you. Yes, NH skiing beats VT, in my opinion. Nicer folks, too.
#2.1 BD on 2007-08-24 08:12 (Reply)
Re: the RED LION...had a meal there (in 1971) as a buddy & I travelled the "Pike". We searched out "Alice's Restaurant" and found it (as you know, that was the name of the song not the restaurant)...The Village Restaruant is was at the time. Saw Officer Obie & his new Dep. (Bob?).

In 1989, while on my way to marry my New England bride (Allston, Mass) I stopped into Stockbridge and shared a pint with the now retired (and infamous) Obie...again, great memories......
#3 Garry on 2007-08-24 09:17 (Reply)
BD,

I have been extraordinarily lucky in many ways. As an example, the time I spent at the Chatham Bars Inn was on somebody else's dime - that's hard to beat.

The Better-Two-Thirds and I were talking just yesterday about how we've had a good run so far and how we'd better get serious about preparing for the sky to fall - good luck can't last forever ;).
#4 Knucklehead (Link) on 2007-08-24 11:24 (Reply)

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