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2026 RT New Hampshire

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Y'all - New Hampshire is a small state but it has so much to offer if you love the outdoors! We arrived Tuesday via the Kancamangus Highway. This is one of several scenic byways across the state. Amazing scenery! Our little apartment for these few days is up a long, dark road tucked up in a forest, but only two miles from town. Perfect! Our first outing on Wednesday was to Flume Gorge. This hike is in the Franconia Notch State Park. It has everything you could want: Giant boulders left behind by receding glaciers tens of thousands of years ago: Covered bridges: Water features: A gorge: Overlooks: Wolf's den crawl thru - this was fun but difficult - I really had to be gumby to squeeze through the rocks to exit the den. More water features: Another massive boulder (Sheri for scale): The way the trees would grow on/over/around the massive rocks was impressive: Life will find a way! After completing this hike we had a picnic lunch and headed to another hike, Artist Bluff Trail. Thi...
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2026 RT Bar Harbor

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Hello from Downeast Maine! We left Falk and Svenni at the Halifax airport and headed to Saint John, NB (not to be confused with St. John, NL!!!) We had more Bay of Fundy (BOF) tidal experiences on the schedule, the Reversing Rapids specifically. So, as you know, the tides in BOF are the highest on earth. The Saint John River empties into the BOF so it too is impacted by the tides. We visited the river three times in one day to see High Tide, Slack Tide and Low Tide.  Here is High Tide when the water is going inland (toward the right): Slack Tide is the twenty minute period where the river goes still before it reverses flow. This is when boats more easily go between the river/lake system and the BOF. Low Tide here, all the water is rushing back towards the BOF (to the left). Does the river really have a direction of flow? I would say No, half the time it is one way, half the other. Neither dominates. Exhausting really. We saw birds and a seal at high tide dining on the fish being sw...
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