After our big IT project in New Jersey went live after two and a half years, and I was allowed to manage the hypercare phase, as we call it, for a month, we went on vacation for two weeks. However, not so far away that I wouldn’t have been able to go back in case of an emergency.
So we rented a car and drove north to New Hampshire. In Port Elizabeth, friends of ours have a house. The last time we met her was in Scotland in 2019. We had stayed in a motel in Old Orchard Beach. This seaside resort had already stopped the season. There were some motifs for my long-term project “Chiuso – Closed – Closed”. The pier, however, has a lot to offer photographically…
We then went on to Maine, to Acadia National Park. In Bar Harbor, right on the border of the park, we had taken up quarters in a motel again. Arcadia offers many opportunities for hiking, even if it is rather a smaller park compared to the national parks in the west and southwest. There are beautiful views of the Atlantic Ocean and plenty of forest, lakes and hills, such as North and South Bubble, which provide beautiful views. Back in Bar Harbor we enjoy the good seafood and the plenty of kitschy sunset.
We travel on to Vermont, or “Monts Verts”, the land of green mountains. Unfortunately, the streams and waterfalls don’t have very much water. The hikes are still very beautiful and relaxing. Otherwise it is very rural here and farm follows farm. In autumn, the leaves of the trees are slowly changing color.
After two weeks we fly back to Europe, only one week, then I have the pleasure to go back to New Jersey…
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher