Annie’s Travels

 Day 7: The White Mountains On Friday, we woke up in Kennebunkport, Maine at the Franciscan Guest House. We got up early so that we could walk around the monastery grounds and see Kennebunkport in the daytime. Our second grotto of the trip They keep a variety of relics here Kennebunkport The Bush compound The "wedding cake house," the most photographed house in Kennebunk We then drove about two hours and spent the rest of the day in New Hampshire's White Mountains. It was incredible! We started by driving on the Kancamagus Highway and making a couple stops, then bought sandwiches in Lincoln, NH. The Historic Albany Covered Bridge - the first stop on the Kancamagus Highway Lower Falls. We spent a lot of time walking around on the rocks, and Spencer said it was the most beautiful natural area he'd ever seen! Such a pretty drive! The Russell-Colbath House. This is the last remaining 19th-century homestead in the White Mountains Lunch After lunch, we did an amazing hike c...

I fell more behind and we're home now! I still have four more days to cover, though, so I'll try to finish writing those posts this week. Day 6: Concord and New Hampshire Outskirts of Boston  First thing on Thursday, we dropped Ashley off at the Boston airport, a crazy drive! Putting the airport on an island might have been ill-advised [Josh note: somehow, Boston has worse street design than DC and worse drivers than Maryland]. Ashley had to leave the trip early for an architecture program at Notre Dame. We were sad to say goodbye!  Our next stop was Wellesley College, just outside of Boston. It’s a nice, woodsy campus with an impressive Gothic tower, and the student center looks like a treehouse. Spencer thinks it’s prettier than Harvard and Yale.  The student center Has anyone else seen the movie Mona Lisa Smile? A few minutes past Wellesley, we saw the Plymouth Church in Framingham, which is the first place that the Battle Hymn of the Republic was performed. [Josh not...