Road Trip: 2021 - New England

This year's vacation brought us to New England.  All of it.  I had a Mensa event - called Mind Games - to attend in Portland, ME (much like I attended in 2019 in Wadsworth, OH), so we made a road trip out of attending the event.  Last time we made the roadtrip around the event.  This time, we were already planning on doing New England, so just changed when to accomodate Mind Games.  New England was originally planned for May 2020, but was canceled due to the virus.

This trip was planned to do all the capitals of New England (in this order): Trenton, NJ; Albany, NY; Montpelier, VT; Augusta, ME; Concord, NH; Boston, MA; Providence, RI; and Hartford, CT.  When mapping the trip and route, it turned out that a significant number of miles (and of course time)would be saved by going to Concord on the way to Boston rather than on the way to Augusta, as Concord is, essentially, in the lower right corner of NH.

So this trip will bring us up to 20 capitols in total.  We were in NINE states this trip, including our home state of Delaware.

The weather was generally excellent.  We had a couple rain showers, but mostly when we were driivng or sleeping.

Trip statistics:
- 12 days and 11 nights.
- ########## miles driven.
- Walked at least ################# steps each (though Steve walked about ########### more than Linda).
- ##########* pictures and 3 videos taken.
- ########## meals eaten (and a couple snacks)
- ########## semi-exotic cars spotted.  Even with all the cities we visited and road miles driven... (and Corvettes and Porsches don't count [if you have an issue with this, let me know])
- About ########### police cars spotted on the roadways (most were in Ohio).
- Less than ########% of drivers used their turn signals.  Seriously.  It is a given that in Florida, supposedly there is a law that it isn't required, but in all the other states?  It was ridiculous.

*####### was the final count of pictures from the memory card that was downloaded to the laptop.  But there were multiple places we visited that dictated "no flash" so I had to play with the settings on the camera to get the best shot I could - but some of them were so bad, I deleted them on the spot.

NOTE: The images are toned, hued and adjusted for the settings on MY monitor.  Your experience may vary slightly.  If you are having difficulty seeing images and they seem "washed out", you may need to turn down the brightness on your monitor.

If you want to look at a big picture, either:
- left-click on it, look and click the browser back button
OR
- right-click on it and select Open in new tab / window

This site doesn't have all the details, but a sufficient amount to give you enough of an idea about our trip.  And for us to remember the highlights when we read this next month, year or decade.