After leaving DC we knew we wanted to head out to Assateague Island, as well as visit one of Kathleen's friends in Baltimore, then we had major decisions to make.
We were planning to go to Acadia first but we started to second guess ourselves. It is already getting cold in the Northeast and we were worried that we might have missed a lot of the fall foliage. Also, we want to see Quebec and Nova Scotia as well as the Canadian side of Niagara and Kathleen had to renew her passport. We also considered doing a loop back to parks in Michigan or heading straight south.
We eventually settled on our original plan of heading north first and we are glad we did. Even though we were a little late for the leaves in a few places:
Some were still perfect:
Our main misfortune on this section came when we crossed a bridge into New Jersey and went to put the sticker on our map. We realized that we had left the stickers on the bike rack after putting Pennsylvania on at our campsite.
We thought about turning around but the bridge was tolled in the other direction and it would take us about an hour and a half to go around and back to the campsite. We decided to simply re-purchase the map from Amazon when we got internet, only to find that the map has been discontinued. We ended up buying a new map that we might place over the original. The idea of getting rid of the first one makes us sad so for the moment we have the new one in the window. We'll stop by our campsite on the way back down to see if we can find the stickers, but the odds aren't good. :/
Other adventures include a bridge with a "9 foot" clearance that we thought we wouldn't make it under. Only to find out that New York has a different way of measuring than we do...
We also knew that we had to stop by Williamstown, MA where Aleah, Kathleen's best friend growing up, lived before moving to Eugene. Kathleen had heard many stories of Lickity Split Ice Cream, but unfortunately it was closed for the season. We did however get to walk around the campus of William's College and see Aleah's old house.
Free campsites have been a little hard to find in the Northeast but the ones we have found have been lovely.
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