November - Day One - New England trip

I don’t know where October went but I guess 10 days at the beach made the month disappear and so it goes. 

And then I turn around and I am off again.   I am just in from a retreat at the Shaker Village in Enfield, NH.   Of course it was a stitching retreat.   Which was run wonderfully.    Jennifer and Merry Susan of Violets & Verses did a more than an outstanding job.  They truly went above and beyond and then some.  More on the retreat in the coming days but first, Day 1……    

In true fashion, when I travel with Stacy we did a ton of touristy things along the way.  This trip we added Vicki to the mix and she fit in just right. Unfortunately we struck out on the way up.   Misting and fear of heights keep us off the Walkway Across the Hudson. (Next time!). We stopped at Captain David Crawford’s house…..closed due to lack of staffing.  George Washington’s Headquarters - also closed.   We stopped at West Point but……didn’t stay long.   Four bus loads of 5th graders running and squealing was a great deterrent and back in the car we were after a quick walk thru the Visitor Center…..this was after we walked in a door and went downstairs to a hallway that said “badges needed for access……”. I think we may have been somewhere we should not have been and we did a to-the-rear-march and ducked out of there quickly before alarms or security came after us!

View of the Hudson River from the Welcome Center at West Point

You might think Day One was a bust but not so.   We somehow found a cross stitch store, Deer Hill Farm Cross Stitch, just outside of Hyde Park.  Pat, the owner was a dear (haha).  We enjoyed her and her shop so much that we had to visit the next day as well.    

We also found a large antique mart and spent time seeing all the things we have sent to Goodwill over the years, now for sale.  LOL   We saw some awesome things as good prices but I resisted……reminding myself it is the purging time of my life, not the collecting tome.

We stayed in a nicest, cleanest little motel in Hyde Park called the Roosevelt Inn.  We ended the first day with Margarita’s at El Guacamole in Hyde Park, NY.   

Stay tuned, more of  my New England trip to come.