Exploring New England - Our Honeymoon Road Trip

Our first stop was a surprise destination for me. Travis found a sweet bed and breakfast located in the heart of Lancaster County and planned for a two night stay at the Harvest Moon in New Market, PA. We spent a lovely Sunday walking through Lititz Springs Park and driving around the country side, hunting for covered bridges.

If you find yourself wanting to visit Lancaster County, may we recommend the Harvest Moon to you? We loved it so much that we decided this was the perfect place to celebrate our fifth anniversary at. We talked about eventually traveling again to all the places we visited in New England, but after our second stay at the Harvest Moon, we thought maybe we should just visit there again and again...

After spending two days in Lancaster County, our next stop was Lee, Massachusetts in the heart of the Berkshire Mountains. We stayed one night at the The Chambery Inn and spent our time in the Berkshires driving through little towns, window shopping and visiting the Norman Rockwell Museum. This was definitely the sort of place you could spend a whole week trying to discover all the little places there were to see!

We traveled to Vermont for one main reason: to visit Ben & Jerry's in Waterbury. But our trip to Vermont didn't turn out so well. First, it was difficult to find a place to stay for the night. We ended up in a Super 8 Motel. Then, after we took the factory tour, we had our first married fight over the validity of the existence of the "Flavor Graveyard" and whether walking in the direction we were going constituted trespassing or not... pretty dumb, huh?

We realized (by the time we drove through half of New Hampshire) that it was time for us to settle in somewhere cozy and rest for more than just one day.

After having our little spat in Vermont, we found a cozy inn somewhere in southwest New Hampshire (outside of Portsmouth). I'm working on tracking down the name of the place...

But aside from forgetting the name of the inn (and the town it was in), our stop in New Hampshire was so memorable. We had a delightful dinner in a cozy little restaurant and the next day, we spent a rainy afternoon in a little laundromat that was just up the street--just like we'd always lived there.

We also drove down to Portsmouth and enjoyed the day walking around in the drizzling rain. We ate lunch at Molly Malone's pub and I hope we can go back some day when Strawberry Banke is actually open! We had a lovely time and it was such a good decision to take a few days off the road.

It was our goal to drive all the way up to the Acadia National Park (which is south of Bangor) but we got a little sidetracked when we stopped to check out the charming little town that is Kennebunkport! Actually, it was the sign we saw when we first pulled in to town: "Jacuzzi Suites." We stopped and booked a room and then went out to see town and a nearby beach. There's so much to see in this area of Maine! And it's all so very beautiful.

As we made our way back down the coast, our trip was a little less eventful and less picturesque with a stop at a kinda scary B&B in Massachusetts (see my big scary smile?), a stop at a regular old Country Inns & Suites near my in-laws and a stop by the police for speeding in Virginia. I'll spare you the details and leave you with the more interesting (and beautiful) places you can visit.

I hope you enjoyed this little lens on New England. I hope you feel inspired to visit some of these places as well. Just remember, don't try to see too much at one time... and don't be a stick in the mud if your traveling partner wants to set out on a search for an adventure (or a Flavor Graveyard).