New England Travel Ideas & Summer Solstice

Welcome, Summer Solstice, and the first day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere!

School is out for most everyone, and our thoughts are turning to hot fun in the summertime!

But it’s not hot here, at least not in New England!  If you’re a kid, I guess it doesn’t really make a difference, as you’re off to camp of one sort or another, or just hanging with your friends.

We don’t have any immediate plans, as you can see from my wanderings in my Vicarious Traveler meme.  There will be one trip to Ogunquit, Maine with charming son-in-law’s parents that I’ll be looking forward to later this summer.  Maine‘s usually cooler though, isn’t it?  Well, it has Maine lobsters, so that’s a redeeming factor.

Yet, now that summer’s here, it’s pretty hard to concentrate when I’m in the cubicle during my day job.  Of course, I thought I was retiring (still have 9 days to decide…tempting) and would get to have carefree time like I did when I was (much) younger.

I think back to those days when my kids were little, and I’d be setting up the Mr. Turtle pool in the mornings, hoping the water would warm up to let the kids play come afternoon.

It looks like the summer weather isn’t shaping up to be too grand in any part of the country this year.

Looking for some great travel ideas in New England?  Check out New England Travel.  I just started to follow Kim on Twitter.

So what are your plans? Maybe I can find some great tips!

Photo Credit: Flickr BeeRealty

To celebrate my new re-branded blog and theme, Moomette’s Magnificents  is hosting a Giveaway Contest! For a chance to win, there will be one (1) winner of a jar of New England Steak Seasoning, just in time for summer grilling!

Please include a way of contacting you.

Main Rule:   (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
a) Sign up for my free Newsletter Updates to my blog through my e-mail Feedblitz link (on the top of my right column or let me know if you already are, in a separate comment) AND

b) Scroll through my past posts and leave the title of one that’s not listed in the related posts here, and WHY you chose it.

Now for extra entries (each task will get you 1 extra entry):

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~ One Extra Entry: Follow Me on Twitter and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment.

~One Extra Entry: Tweet about this contest (Retweet button at bottom of post), and come back to this post and leave the URL link to the Tweet so I can check. You may Retweet once per day until the end of the contest, but please leave a separate comment for each Retweet, along with the permalink

Make sure you comment separately for each task after the required entry task so you will get credit for each one ~ and leave your e-mail where you can be contacted.

This contest will run until June 28 at approximately 11:00 pm.

Winners are chosen by Random.Org, if you want all your chances counted, make sure you leave individual comments, not all of them in one!

*Winner has 48 hours to contact me or another name will be chosen.

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