East Coast Tour Continues: Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine

We are on our way to New York.  We started in Maine on Friday.  Today (Sunday), we are in Connecticut.  We were in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 4th of July, and we saw ships from different countries, including some of our own ships, in the Charleston Harbor. We saw  the USS Constitution, which is a ship built in 1794. Here is a picture of The USS Constitution.  They call her 'Old Ironsides.'  The USS Constitution is celebrating her 200th birthday.  They had a major celebration on the Charleston Harbor.  The Blue Angels flew overhead, there was a parade, real cannons were fired from the USS Constitution, they took her out to sea with US Navy sailors dressed in clothes from the 1700's, and there was a lot more, too.

After we visited the ships, we went to the Bunker Hill Monument, and we walked 294 steps to the top.  That's the same as a 20 story building!  Here is a picture of The Bunker Hill Monument. Here is a second picture of the inside of this monument.

Later that night, we watched the fireworks (they were neighborhood fireworks) and we thought they were real fireworks. We found out that the fireworks were scheduled for 10:30 pm, and not 9:00 pm, the time we were there. We did not watch the fireworks that night, because we could not find parking anywhere.

When we left Boston, we went to Vermont. On the way to Vermont, we passed through the Appalachian Mountain range. My mom wanted to stop at a site called 'The Old Man' which was there for thousands of years before it collapsed in 2003. The Old Man was a natural face carved into the mountain side, and the Indians in that valley below it worshiped it. Read more about "The Old Man" at this website: "The Old Man".  Above is a picture of 'The Old Man.'


When we left Vermont, we went to New Hampshire. There is nothing to do in New Hampshire, except for camping, fishing, and hunting, if you love the wilderness. New Hampshire is a nature lover's paradise.  New Hampshire is a beautiful state, and Vermont is very much the same.  Later that night, we watched the fireworks in a town called Mexico, Maine. Mexico is a very tiny town, and when we stopped in Mexico to buy some food at Walmart there, my sister said it smelled like feet in the air, but it was actually a paper mill. We learned that the fireworks were going on when a guy let us know that. The fireworks were so cool!  They were better than the ones in Boston and we had a terrific view!  I took this picture below.

After we spent a few days in Maine, we started heading to New York. We are in Branford, Connecticut, and we will go to New York soon.

I will write again when we get to New York.

Read more about travel at:http://hubpages.com/, and look up my mom at: Li Galo