Before leaving Hingham I finally was able to get a picture of this sign. Massachusetts has one for each of their towns and it's such a kick to drive from one town to another and see this sign with date of settlement started. Hard to get pictures because you don't know where the town line begins and there is no place to pull over for a quick stop and picture. It's a bummer. On this one I was lucky enough after a month to be driving towards sign and 1st at stoplight with camera next to me. ha! All these towns are so historic and have some wonderful history. Too bad so many have been neglected. Roads are terrible in most places and some are really run down while others thrive.. just like anywhere. Just interesting observations. I was taken so much with Hingham because we lived there for 5 weeks and it was so CLEAN! Loved the manicured yards and over 1800 historic homes and some still in residence of 13 generations! That is something in this young country with so littl
One of our favorite places in the whole country is Yosemite National Park. We have been here numerous times and usually in early spring. This year we were late enough for Toulumne Meadows to be open and Glacier Point. Spent about a week and a half and hiked the meadows to the top of Sentinel Point and out to Happy Isles and Mirror Lake and across the valley to the falls. Wonderful, wonderful as Lawrence would say.. ha! Did not get much of a signal for wifi or phone although we were able to get something for phone in the "valley". Also hiked out to Wapama Falls at hetch hetchy dam one day and oh my goodness the damage from the "Rim" Fire last fall. Over 400 square miles of forest fire and into the National Park boundry as well. It will take years and years of time to recover and we see that a lot of those wonderful trees are being sold as lumber so yes, there is some lucky contractor who is coming in and clearing out a lot of the trees. Many of the ponderosa pine only get black and the bark acts as a natural fire retardent so they are fine inside but you can bet they are going along with the others.. Still a wonderful place to visit and we enjoyed our time here immensely.
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