The Beginning of Wednesday: Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Summer Plans

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Summer Plans

With today being my first day back to work since June 25th (Boooo!) I'm already looking ahead to my next vacation while planning some weekend/day trips in the meantime. My good friend, Amy, recently posted about things she wanted to do this summer and I'm going to do the same.

Some of the places below were taken from 100 Places to Visit This Summer in the Discover! New Hampshire Vacation Guide and others are places just I want to see (or see again) between now and our anniversary weekend in October. I figured that was a reasonable amount of time to check these items off my list.

While on vacation last week Aaron came up with the idea to start an "Adventure Day." So, in addition to "Date Night Monday," we are each going to pick one weekend day a couple times per month and come up with an adventure; planning the entire day and surprising the other with the plans. Maybe some of the trips below will be used for our Adventure Days!

Click on the name of each to visit the site. Enjoy!

America's Stonehenge- Haverill, NH
Cathedral of the Pines- Rindge, NH
Currier Museum of Art- Manchester, NH
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum- Warner, NH
Polar Caves- Plymouth, NH
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum- Boston, MA
Norman Rockwell Museum- Stockbridge, MA (I went in 2008; one of my favorite places-- ever!)
Bar Harbor- Maine. I've been here over 15 times (I lived about 45 minutes away when I did my undergrad in Bangor, Maine. I miss it terribly and it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.)
New England Aquarium- Boston, MA. I'm a sucker for marine life, what can I say?
Salem Witch Museums- Salem, MA. (I went years ago and LOVED it! I want to explore the entire town.)

Some of these places are free and others will require small admission fees and gas $$. There are a few places on here which we already have plans/dates set to explore. We are so very lucky to live in a geographic region where so many beautiful and interesting things are available to us.

We'll keep you posted about our adventures. Also, stay tuned for a run down of the vacation we just took. We did some pretty neat things!

2 comments:

Amy said...: Oh we are so adding some of these places....

<3; July 7, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Amy said...: I LOVE YOU! and was searching for things to do this summer - in addition to our lists - and came across this site ... with at LEAST two of your destinations.

http://www.newhampshire.com/business-directory/gift-certificates.aspx/entertainment

it's sort of like the other site I have (the half off fun one) .. except these are different! LOL

Hope it helps you!; July 8, 2010 at 4:41 PM

Quotes that define my life:

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -- Rudyard Kipling
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Unknown
"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." -- E. Lutzer
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and the music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.” -- Lord Byron
"There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help." -- Mr. Rogers
"If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." -- Persian Proverb
"Real peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mountains we climb

+ Currently: Life
+ Magalloway Mountain: Pittsburg, NH: 3,350 ft. Fire tower @ summit
+ Uncanoonuc Mountains: Goffstown, NH; Elevation: North Peak 1,324 ft. South Peak, 1,321 ft. *Indian Translation: "woman lying down" or "breasts"*
+ Mt. Major: Alton Bay, NH: Approx 4 mi. round trip; 1,100 ft. @ summit.
+ Monument Mt., Berkshire Area, MA: Approx 3 mi. round trip; *Beautiful waterfall* 1,735 ft @ summit.
+ Welch-Dickey- Loop Trail, Waterville Valley Area: 4.4 mi. round trip; 2,605 ft. @ Welch summit, 2,734 ft. @ Dickey summit.
+ Mt. Kearsarge- Barlow Trail, Winslow State Park, Wilmot: 2.8 mi. round trip; 2,937 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Monadnock- White Dot Trail, Jaffrey: 4.2 mi. round trip, 3,165 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Layafette- Old Bridle Path, Franconia Notch State Park: 8 mi. round trip, 5,260 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Cardigan- East Side Loop, Alexandria: 5.3 mi. round trip, 3,121 ft @ summit. * some of the mountain was left bare from a fire in 1855
+ Mt. Morgan & Mt. Percival- Squaw Mountains, Holderness & Center Sandwich: 5.1 mi. round trip; 2,220 & 2,212 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Osceola- White Mountain National Forest: 6.4 mi. round trip, 4,340 ft. @ summit

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