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En route to Boston, we stopped over in Portland, Maine. According to our travel guide, this place is called the "San Francisco of the East", and since we'd been to SF back in 2009, we also wanted to see this place. After a late lunch, we continued south to Boston.

Our second day took us up to Crawford Notch, from where a hiking path starts to a scenic outlook on Mount Willey. In the afternoon, we drove to Mount Washington's base cog railway station, when the weather changed rapidly and quite a bit of rain came up. We called it a day and went back to the hotel early.

Our first day took us westbound along Kancamagus Highway, where we stopped for a short hike up onto a ledge overlooking Swift River valley. We continued over the pass and on to Franconia Notch, where we walked through the Flume Gorge.

After checking out at our motel, we headed up north for the White Mountains. On our way, we stopped over for an afternoon in a small town called Salisbury for a swim in the ocean waves.

On Friday, another cloudy day, we walked around the little town of Newport and it's Cliff Walk. Too bad with the weather, this colorful vacation place is best seen in bright sunshine...

The day after that, it cooled off quite a bit, clouded up and started drizzling. It wasn't going to keep us from going to Block Island, about 20 km off the Rhode Island coast. We did have to stop and buy sweaters first, though!

On this sunny summer day, we headed out to Cape Cod and spent the day at the beach.

After taking the Acela express train from New York to Providence, we picked up the rental car there, we checked in to our Motel in Newport. The following day we started out a "déja vu" trip to Seekonk and East Providence, where I'd lived during my U.S. highschool year. Later in the afternoon, we walked around Providence.