Dear Friends, This cartoon says it all! Bon Voyage to all. Love, Ken, Kate, Sam & Lauren PS--Click on cartoon for larger version [View Full Entry]

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Dear Friends and Family, We had some problems with our first travel blog. It seems that we signed up for a very low-tech knock-off of the much better version. We have canceled our old blog and you are now all signed up to receive an email notification whenever we add new content. Our apologies for any inconvenience to those who had to struggle to sign up with the old blog. If you received this message you need to do nothing else. When we officially depart in just 18 days (ouch!) you will start to receive more of these links from us. [View Full Entry]

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The weather is becoming autumnal now with temperatures barely reaching 60F during the day and dropping to near freezing at night. However it is still dry and mainly clear. Today we explored the Berkshires, a forest covered hilly area in the far west of Massachusetts. Many New Yorkers and Bostonians have their summer homes here and it is a centre for the arts in the summer. At this time of the year the roads were generally very quiet. We started by driving the remainder of the Mohawk Trail road due west over a 2,000’ pass and stopped in North Adams to [View Full Entry]

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On another fine but colder day, we picked up our hire car from the airport and with some difficulty due to roadworks made our way out of Boston and headed west into the Massachusetts countryside. We were soon into hilly areas covered by trees which were beginning to turn into their Autumn colours. We stopped at a farm shop which was selling pumpkins and squashes of all shapes, size and colour to buy some food and then headed to our first American ski resort, Wachusett Mountain, for a picnic lunch, eaten admiring magnificent views. Our next stop was at Shelburne Falls [View Full Entry]

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