Regional Meet Ups - USA

Post by **marilyn morning** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:56 am

Hmm Maine? Not sure if I could make that trip in one day?

Jean how far away are you from the Kancamagus Highway? I could stay in Lincoln for the night? I really don't need much arm twisting to spend a long weekend in the White Mountains.

If I remember correctly? You take Rt. 302 into Fryeburg, Maine then travel on to Conway?

http://www.yankeecruisah.com/kanc.html

Regards
Marilyn

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:05 pm

Hey Marilyn...not far at all.

You got the the Fryeburg (special note for all you Scots...that one is pronounced berg...sorry

) bit correct but hang a right onto 113 and head south at the monument. Conway is going west and is in NH

.....I'm in Maine. Let's put it this way....if I take the back way through Brownfield I can be in North Conway in about 40 minutes.....sometimes less

Not much to do genealogically 'round there....but some nice outlet shopping is always possible

Best wishes
Jean

Post by **marilyn morning** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:02 pm

Hi Jean,

So sorry for the confusion

My directions were in reverse

As if I was leaving Maine and driving back into New Hampshire to stay in Lincoln. The only landmark I know of in Fryeburg is the "Orange Pumpkin Motel" but I'm sure that I could find my way around.

Regards
Marilyn

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:46 pm

marilyn morning wrote:The only landmark I know of in Fryeburg is the "Orange Pumpkin Motel" but I'm sure that I could find my way around.

Regards
Marilyn

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Post by **marilyn morning** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:50 pm

Hi Jean,

I take it you've never heard of the motel before? Well it was there 20 years ago.

Marilyn

Post by **AnneM** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:55 pm

Just don't go in the shower!!

Anne

Post by **marilyn morning** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:29 pm

Post by **marilyn morning** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:42 pm

And a few more pics for everyone's scrap book.

Manhattan Skyline

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1273

Statue of Liberty

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1274

Empire State Building

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1275

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:42 pm

Hi all

Re reading this thread its amazing that we actually did it - what with all our geographical starting points ect.
One piece of advice from Marilyn i wish i had seen earlier

See you on Saturday morning at Penn. Station and bring your flat shoes.

I didnt get to see Liberty she was one thing i would have liked to have got a look at. We stayed a few minutes walk from The Empire State building and she is quite stunning and if i had seen that the last ride up was 1.15am i think i would have gone. We passed Ground Zero (not something that was on my list) and the most moving thing is not the site itself but the charred remains of a big cross that is on the side of a church accross the road.
We walked partly up The Brooklyn Bridge

they should have oxygen masks that just pop out on the way up ! but it was unbelievably hot that day. Went all round Greenwich Village, Chelsea (where we were working) and other places i cant remember right now.
Times square looked nothing like it does at New Year on T.V and Broadway was disgustingly dirtier than our equal - Shaftesbury Avenue area.
So that was the bottom half of New York for me, maybe one day i will go back and do the Central Park half.
But by far the best bit was those two stores - (Jean knows the ones i mean !)

and i cant wait for my chair i bought in one of them to arrive back here

It was all good and when i have enough schrapnel saved to come back you girls will be the first to know.

Tracey

Post by **marilyn morning** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:52 pm

Hi Tracey

Is this the cross?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_cross

Marilyn