Reflections of Travel to the United States

Travel, whether it is for business or pleasure, has been an important and integral part of my entire life. Over 400 trips by road, rail and air to all corners of the world included both familiar and exotic destinations. This article is mainly about those who visited the United States.

New York

It was originally accessed via Floyd Bennett Field, New York's first public airport. Manhattan, as seen from the water on island-circling cruises, then from the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, which no longer exists, and the museum, theater and restaurant arteries. The Lower-, Mid- and Upper-Hudson Valleys were accessed via Floyd Bennett Field, New York's first municipal airport. They included Bear Mountain, West Point and the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. Also, the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome was a vintage aircraft.

The Catskill Mountains were ablaze in autumn and offered skiing at Hunter Mountain, Ski Windham and beautiful natural scenery such as Kaaterskill Fall. They are the first step on the way to the Adirondacks with its sparkling blue Lake George and numerous boat tours, not to mention Fort Ticonderoga.

The Finger Lakes region was located further north and west, with the sculpted waterfalls of Watkins Glen, the Glenn H. Curtiss National Soaring Museum, boat cruises along Keuka Lake where Curtiss tested his own seaplane designs and outdoor lunches in area vineyards.

New England

New England is comprised of six states.

Maine was the first, offering a taste of the Atlantic with its lobsters and shrimp. But its topographical diversity included Bangor, Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island on the coast, and Rangeley Lake and its lodges and forests inland.

New Hampshire, and its neighboring state, was associated with the knotty cabins that lined the shores and waters of Lake Winnipesaukee. It also included the small motorboats, from which fishing line were hung, to catch the fish which would later become dinner. North Conway, and the numerous notch-like notches in the White Mountains were accessed via a variety of ski lifts and Gondolas. This included those that went up Mount Washington, its crowning peak.

Vermont's mirror-image Green Mountains was marked by the crossing of Lake Champlain and its Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, Green Mountain National Forest and Mount Snow Ski Resort Grand Summit Lodge. The Bluebird Express Scenic Chairlift allowed for an ascent up Mount Snow, Benington Battlefield State Historic Site and Covered Bridges Museum. The Molly Stark Trail was a 48-mile scenic route through the southern region.

Massachusetts is a little further south and offers the big city of Boston, the Freedom Trail, the harbor-anchored USS Constitution, the towns of Plymouth and Salem with their House of the Seven Gables and Witch Dungeon Museum, the battle sites of Lexington, Concord, and the Berkshires in the western part of the state. The historic Red Lion Inn was one of the many attractions in this area. It also included the Norman Rockwell Museum and the Herman Melville house, from which the mountain that inspired Moby Dick could be seen. There was also a trip up Mount Greylock for lunch and spectacular views 에볼루션카지노.

The mansions of Newport, Rhode Island were replaced by the casinos in eastern Connecticut. There was also the Essex Steam Train, which is the first nuclear submarine, in Groton. Other attractions included the Connecticut Coast, with Mystic Seaport and Yale University, as well as the Shubert Theatre, a Broadway "tryout", and the Long Island Sound crossing ferry.

The Mid-Atlantic States

The District of Columbia was included in the seven Mid-Atlantic States that slid down from New Jersey to North Carolina.

New Jersey's beaches, Cape May with its Victorian architecture and Atlantic City's casino complex were balanced by a number of aviation sites, including those at Naval Air Station Lakehurst (the site of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster) and Naval Air Station Wildwood.

Pennsylvania offers a wide variety of scenery and geography. Scranton's northeastern region offers the chance to experience early track-based transport modes. The Electric City Trolley Museum and Steamtown National Historic Site are both located in Scranton. After crossing the Delaware Water Gap to the south, winter ski resorts such as Big Boulder, Jack Frost and the Pocono Mountains are located. Pennsylvania Dutch Country was still farther south, accessible by Reading and Lancaster. It offered aviation exposure via its Mid-Atlantic Aviation Museum and a glimpse into simple, natural living with its horse-drawn buggy, lack of electric, Good n' Plenty restaurant, and shoofly pies.

The area is also home to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, which houses the largest collection of railroad artifacts in the United States.