June – July 2026
Northeast 2026
A June 2026 loop through New England and upstate New York.
The history-dense heart of the trip — about three weeks tracing where the country began, from the Revolution's first shots at Lexington & Concord to Gilded Age Newport, a poet's house in Cambridge, and a president's birthplace outside Boston, wound through New England's coast, mountains, and mill towns.
Where I visited
- 1Brookline — JFK's birthplace & boyhood home (NPS)
- 2Boston — Beacon Hill: bookshops & chocolate
- 3Boston — The Freedom Trail: how the American Revolution started
- 4Boston — The Black Heritage Trail: another revolutionary road
- 5Boston — Back Bay: the Public Library & strolling
- 6Boston — Street art
- 7Quincy — The Adams family homestead
- 8Cambridge — Longfellow House: Washington's HQ, then a poet's home
- 9Lexington & Concord — Minute Man Park, where the Revolution began
- 10Salem — Witch trials, wharves & 400 years
- 14Woodstock — Conservation history (Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller)
- 15Stowe — Vermont ski town: historic inn & cider mill
- 16Stowe — Trapp Family Lodge (the real Sound of Music)
- 17Hartford — Mark Twain's house & the Wadsworth museum
- 18Glastonbury — Stopped by for mouth-melting apple cider donuts