Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine

We left our RV's in Brimfield, MA, and took a three day trip through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

As soon as we crossed the Vermont border, there were signs to watch for moose.  We never saw a moose in the wild but we were very curious about the moose we saw in Bennington, VT.

Yes, they were on top of things and multi-colored.  What a hoot.

We saw lots of rivers, brooks and lakes in all of the New England states.  They are pristine and gorgeous.

We began to see houses with very steep roofs when traveling through VT.  (Hope you don't mind the postal abbreviations-it saves me typing them out and I have inside information.)

VT is known for covered bridges and when we heard the amount of snow they receive during the winter, we understood why.  Also, the snow is the reason for the steep roofs on the houses.

Onto to New Hampshire.

These stone fences are common in the NE states.  Suzy, our traveling buddy, has been to England and Scotland where these kind of fences are also very common.  The immigrants from Europe probably influenced the use of stone fences plus it makes good use of the resources available.

NH also had lots of pretty lakes.

Try to see past the guard rails on the bridge to see the awesome view of the rivers, hills and lots of green trees.  We would love to visit this area in the fall for the colors but all the shades of new green growth was also beautiful.

The lower part of the roof on this house was metal.  Our theory is the steep roofs and metal helps all that snow to slide off the houses.

Here's a stone fence that looks like it has been around for a long time with little care.  We saw these fences on both sides of the road at times.  There would be some coming across fields, too, like they were dividing them.

We enjoyed visiting Maine.  It is one of the coastal states of NE.

We saw several light houses on the part of the coast we traveled between Kittery and Kennebunk, ME.

The Maine coast reminded us of the Oregon coast with lots of rocks, harbors, etc.

It looked like there were many year-round residential areas but we also saw lots of rental homes, motels and charming shops.

As we made our way around NE, we began to notice a lot of Dunkin' Donuts shops.

Here's a picture of a photo we saw in one of the shops.  Dunkin' Donuts is celebrating 60 years of business this year.

We didn't count but we think that in one day of driving we probably saw 100 of these shops.  We compared them to espresso stands (Starbucks, etc.) in the Northwest and the ABC stores in Hawaii. 

There were some fascinating homes, too.

We are always seeing the names of cities that remind of someone or are the name of another city in the US.  We were actually surprised at how many cities have the same name as another city.  For example, Portland, OR and Portland, ME.  This sign reminded us of Sonja and Kent Hardwick, cousins we just visited in NJ.

We keep on keeping on.  Maybe we will be home by July this year.