Where can you find Romantic Rhode Island? Why nearly everywhere, of course, in this Atlantic Coast speck of a New England State. We start on an island off the coast and continue statewide. Rhode Island is home to the oldest July 4th Celebration in the country, some of the best …
WHY GO: The town of Washington CT lies in an area of Connecticut known as the Litchfield Hills. The region has been called “The Secret Corner,” as opposed to the Northeast section of CT, dubbed the “Quiet Corner”. This hilly, lake-studded area of Connecticut is home to the glitterati who …
WHY GO: The region encompassing La Plata MD, Waldorf, and Charles County in general, is slowly being discovered by the world. Why? How? Charles County MD, on the Potomac River 45 minutes from Washington DC, is where you’ll find the largest collection of sunken ships in the Western Hemisphere, in …
WHY GO: The small towns of the Litchfield Hills CT sure do pack a punch. And are also, happily, supremely romantic. Especially around Fall Foliage season. Where are Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills? In Northwest Connecticut, the towns of Goshen, Hartland, Harwinton, Litchfield, Morris New Hartford, Norfolk, North Canaan, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, …
Why Go: Greetings From Asbury Park NJ! Come to this Jersey Shore town, an hours drive from midtown Manhattan, and you can utter the title of Bruce Springsteen’s first hit album with a sense of place. (Better yet, send a postcard). Wander the boardwalk, Instagram the hell out of the …
WHY GO TO QUINCY MA It would not be hyperbole to say that Quincy MA, in many ways, “built” the USA. The hometown of several Founding Fathers (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and John Hancock), and resource center for the mid 1800’s granite industry, Quincy MA turned out both framers …
Candleberry Inn, Brewster MA Time on Cape Cod seems to move at a glacial pace. Sure, new inns and restaurants open and close, especially in Provincetown –the most hyper of Cape towns. But in most areas of this flexed arm of an island, the prospect of change spurs much debate. …
WHY GO: A vacation spot since the late 1700’s, Cape May NJ attracted city dwellers who traveled by packet steamers down to the shore. There, they’d “bathe” in the Atlantic Ocean, essentially bobbing up and down in the waves wearing barbell-heavy woolen “bathing attire.”Since then, Cape May tourism has waxed …
WHY GO: Utica NY in Oneida County, is a self-proclaimed “City of Refugees:” a safe haven for the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. On the Erie Canal, via Oneida Lake, Utica was perfectly positioned during the Industrial Revolution (17th through early 19th centuries) to be a manufacturing …
WHY GO: The northern Jersey Shore town of Long Branch NJ, with the Atlantic Ocean, beaches, and incredible sunrises, shares all the benefits of a “Jersey Shore Experience” with its southern sisters of Atlantic City and Cape May. But it’s so much easier to get to. Long Branch is …