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also bar harbor is awesome. spend as much time as possible in acadia, that whole park is utterly spectacular. wife & i hiked 3 or 4 long, full days there and barely saw any 2 trails that looked similar. and we barely made a dent in the park. such a diverse landscape. cliff trails, rocky beach trails, birch trails, pine trails, lake perimeter trails, mountain trails, dense deciduous trails. it was really amazing.

bar harbor had an amazing vegan restaurant, eden cafe, but yelp says it's closed. bummer, it was really cool and the owners were awesome people who make all kinds of cool art in the off season.

or springfield, or new bedford, or lynn, or chelsea, or holyoke, or or or or or

― marcos, Monday, June 9, 2014 10:19 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically any urban area in southern new england

Chelsea sorta grew on me when I worked there but yes to all of those listed.

otm. maine has some depressed shitholes too if am not mistaken.

new england's prettiness is primarily restricted to cute smaller towns and rural areas. there some exceptions, boston obviously has a few attractive neighborhoods

both vermont and maines larger cities are quite nice imo, there are def some shitholes in n new england, i sit not far from one as we speak, but the hit ratio is much higher up here generally, you dont get anything like an entire state covered in vinyl siding (r.i.)

lol

lets not even talk abt conn no one want to claim conn

I miss the halcyon days of when mentioning Conn. made me think of all those wacky land boundaries and not horrible tragedies.

xp: Oh come on, Connecticut has... Mohegan Sun...

connecticut is easily one of the worst states in the world no offense anyone

new haven can be pretty cool imo

yale's museums are great, lots of good cheap food, great pizza

oh im def gonna visit new haven as soon as i can now

my dad now resides in new Bedford should I not visit

also CT has some pretty rural areas, sherman is a cute little town iirc that felt pretty similar to the berkshire towns in MA like stockbridge and great barrington. went to wedding there a few years ago

omg stop trying to make connecticut happen

ha, i feel like i have to justify it, if only for myself. my wife's folks live there and there is a 30% chance we will end up there too

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/22/02/62/4729992/3/628x471.jpg

lmao

you should totally visit New Bedford IMO

window is short but I will take that on board

if I've seen Gloucester does yr answer change? cos I've seen Gloucester twice and that was once and a bit too many tbph

well, kind of? New Bedford is like a seedier version of Gloucester with worse restaurants and a pretty cool whaling museum

otm it's way seedy

and CT sucks but I do want to try New Haven pizza.

hmmm I feel like I could find a closer whaling museum were that all, yknow

tho I guess I can see why he moved, given the facts

Gloucester can be pretty seedy too though. Someone in a bar there once stole my shoes.

I like it even though I'm still bitter about the shoe incident.

lmaoo

yeah gloucester has a nice balance between historic gloucester and being mad real, new bedford is more just mad real

you cld always just take a day trip to the cape too

New England is a mystery to me!

do people wear tricorns instead of fedoras there?

come on up curtis well show u around

they wear... triblysssss xp

http://i.imgur.com/0E9ySvf.jpg

lol

yep

haha

If you go to conn drive the Merritt Parkway

Everything else kinda sucks imo

yeah the merrit owns

yea it's a good drive. was kind of a miracle when we started driving the merritt instead of 95 to visit my in-laws in fairfield. that stretch of 95 is one of my top 3 worst highways in the country

As someone who lives within the Louisiana Purchase, parkways are such a novelty to me.

I think if you do 95 entering from NY there's a cool bridge you drive across. But yeah that's an awful stretch

i gotta get down to the whaling museum but i have been programmed to avoid the entire rt. 24/495 triangle

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

That's amazing

It's not an interstate, it's not a Route 66... it's a limited-access highway that goes through people's backyards.

yea no trucks too

bqe > grand central pkwy > whitstone bridge > hutchinson pkwy > merritt pkwy > wilber cross pkwy > almost to hartford

the route of gods

Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park

― 龜, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theyre called that cause robert moses built the frst ones under the auspices of the parks department iirc