Weekend Vacations

6/3/10 - Made reservation at the HIE in Lititz for 3 nights starting 6/17, as work schedule has been rough. 6/14/10 - Modified reservation as would get there too late to appreciate the fine room after work. Decision was made to start from home Friday morning (6/18 - only 1 hour+ from South Jersey). Already had a list of places to check out via yahoo travel, but others via the visitpa web site (and links from there...) to have various options for the weekend. 6/22/10 - Post trip view for all. We used the schedule function to show the when and where of what we actually did, and left the ...

We spent a long weekend in Asheville visiting some friends of ours from Korea (they're now living in Japan). It was an interesting mix of his college friends, her college friends...and then us. The 'mutual' friends. Bill and Sarah did the lodging legwork for this one (it was, after all, THEIR trip) and booked a great cabin on the outskirts of the town (I can't bring myself to call it a city...). We brought along a list of good ideas from our previous visit here - along with the only guidebook we were able to find in a conventional book store: The Underground Asheville Guidebook. Asheville is ...

Martha’s Vineyard: Part 1 Chris and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Martha’s Vineyard for our birthdays. Martha’s Vineyard, to give a little history, was named by Bartholomew Gosnold, who sailed to the island in 1602. He named the island Martha’s Vineyard after his mother in law and his second child, both named Martha. (If you want to learn more, check out the wikipedia entry on Martha’s Vineyard). We headed to Martha’s Vineyard by bus: Port Authority to Woods Hole, Massachusetts and then a ferry from Woods Hole to Martha’s Vineyard. We stayed at The Thorncroft Inn, a cute bed and breakfast ...