Mount Washington Resort, Bretton Woods. Set in the White Mountains, part of the Appalachians.
A journey through the New England states of New Hampshire and Vermont, via Indian Head and the White Mountain National Forest.
Mount Washington Resort, Bretton Woods. Set in the White Mountains, part of the Appalachians.
The Bretton Woods Conference at the end of the Second World War was held here. It was a gathering of delegates from 44 Nations including John Maynard Keynes, a British economist and the founder of Keynesian Economics....much in the news of late.
Poor weather and low cloud cover unfortunately prevented a view of Mount Washington.
White Mountain National Forest Park, out of season and very quiet.......
It's handy to have a dispensible member of the family with you.
Country Store in Jackson New Hampshire.
Jackson Covered Bridge. One of many of the famous Covered Bridges of New England, often called Courting Bridges.We have Bus Shelters.
A second bridge in Jackson on the main road.
Indian Head Resort. Takes it's name from the natural giant rock profile that forms the summit of Mt Pemigewasset. The 100ft observation tower was built to get a better look......
I think they are White Tailed Deer.
Littleton New Hampshire
Bath, New Hampshire. Overhead wires are everywhere in the States. All new installations are buried.
All the covered bridges are numbered. This is number 27. It is one of the oldest in the United States.
The impressive timber work is called a lattice truss. A nearby notice states that no more than 200 people are allowed on the bridge at any one time......
Everyone will recognise this.
The quiet residential hamlet of Taftville has less than one hundred people and is home to one of Vermont's oldest and longest covered bridges. At 194 feet, it crosses the Ottauquecheee River. It's the oldest covered bridge in Windsor County and the fourth oldest in the state........
Ottauquecheee River.
Woodstock Vermont
Bentleys Restaurant...we had one of our best meals here.
A typical Woodstock house.
Woodstock Middle Bridge constructed in 1969.
A very memorable roadside diner near Rutland Vermont. They even make their own Maple Syrup......
The Maple Sap Spouts have not long been taken out of the trees......
The Maple processing plant in the basement of the diner......
...and the collecting tub shed.
On through the Green Mountains.......wrong time of the year for those wonderful Maple Tree colours that we see in the Autumn.......
.......a very welcoming and clever idea that we often saw was free coffee at the roadside visitor centres.......
Endless trees and space, houses with no perimeter fences are the norm.
And the only Moose we saw.