Best line of October forgotten about until today

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1. My mom does this trip every year, and after returning this time around told me she was taking me next year. I can’t wait (though I do want to see New England sometime).

2. A few years ago we lived in West Virginia, near the Potomac and the borders of VA, MD, and PA. A friend offered to let us use his rustic cabin in New Hampshire a few miles from Maine and not too far from the coast, so we took him up on it in late Oct, having always heard about the New England autumn. It was beautiful up there to us desert rats, there’s no doubt about it, but when we got back to WV, it was even more stunning than anything we’d seen up north. I think the mountains make the difference–you get a broader perspective and all those distant ridges full of color. (Yes, we went to the White Mts in NH, but a little bit past the peak in the higher elevations.)

   The best autumn scenery I ever saw was October, 1994, driving between Lake Placid and Lake Champlain (NY)–I think it was along the Au Sable River–there’s a canyon with mountains rising really steep and high on each side of the road and river. The mountainsides were covered with millions of trees in shades of red, orange, gold, yellow, etc. It was akin to being at the Grand Canyon in terms of the majesty and beauty. I got all choked up and teary-eyed just being there. Truly one of the most amazing sites of my life.

   1. The Adirondacks. Art and I were blessed to spend six months of the year camping on a bluff overlooking Lake Champlain and Vermont. Stunning. We had a train at the bottom of the bluff which ran from New York City to Montreal, Canada….AND the ferry boats ran each day to Burlington, Vermont. We could not see the trains nor the boat dock from above,just the lake, but the sounds of the train whistle and the boat horns became our clocks.The fall colors were every bit as beautiful( if not more) as in Vermont,( but those white church spires and fields of black and white cows with the gorgeous huge maples were real stunners( along with Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream factory) As gorgeous as Arizona, Western North Carolina(take a trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway and into the Smoky Mountain National Park during the leaf glory season(wow,wow,wow) or when miles of the mountains are on fire with deep pink to red flowers-we lived there also, six months at a time for several years.We spent the winters for 30 years on a lovely little island in SW Florida.Try kakaking in the beautiful turquoise Gulf waters with the manatees and dolphins( sharks, etc). and white beaches to rest on after a swim. Now, I am landlocked in a place with a rotten climate, but what are possibly the most beautiful horse farms in the country and they are everywhere. And we do have the John Travolta family living here and they are really admired by all.The bears are apt to show up downtown as well as in the miles of National forests. My idea of fall colors here is a gorgeous red rose from our yard. We may not have seen the world, but we have been blessed to have lived in be in some of America’s , if not the world’s greatest. Maybe that is because there is so much more to be seen. Our time here will never be long enough to see it all.The spot overlooking Lake Champlain rates high. Nation, travel your country before we allow the wonder we have to be destroyed by greed and carelessness. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

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