| 2011-5-25 (Wed) | Thousand Island District |
Map of my travels on this trip for my work
(aq_0029) Thousand Island area between Canada and United States
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| 2011-5-25 (Wed) | Visit to Parliament Building in Ottawa, Canada |
(aq_0032) Ottawa - famous Fairmont Chateau Laurier
(aq_0033) Parliament Building
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(aq_0039) Trinh Thu Dung and Tuyet
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(aq_0090) Dung's house in Ottawa
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| 2011-5-29 (Sun) | Sightseeing in Boston, Massachuetts |
(aq_0109) downtown Boston - In front of Cheers (TV version of bar) at Faneuil Hall Market Place
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(aq_1151) State capitol of Massachusetts
(aq_0129) Bull and Finch Pub, the real Cheers bar on Beacon Street in downtown Boston
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| 2011-5-29 (Sun) | Sightseeing in Scituate, Massachuetts (south of Boston) |
(aq_0136) Lighthouse at Scituate, Massachusetts, between Boston and Plymouth
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| 2011-5-29 (Sun) | Sightseeing in Plymouth, Massachuetts |
(aq_0143) Plymouth, MA - Pilgrim Memorial State Park
(aq_0144) Plymouth, Massachusetts - where first settlers from Europe arrived in the United States in 1620 (before it became a country)
(aq_0139) The famous "Plymouth Rock" which marks the spot that the original Pilgrims landed
in 1620.
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(aq_0145) Where the "Plymouth Rock" is located
(aq_0147) Replica of the ship "Mayflower" that brought pilgrims from England to Plymouth in 1620
(aq_0148) Eating some real Massachusetts clams
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(aq_0151) Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the end of Cape Cod
| 2011-5-30 (Mon) | Sightseeing in Vermont and New Hampshire |
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(aq_0156) My first time to visit state of Vermont
(aq_0157) Rest stop and visitor center along Interstate
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(aq_0160) Sitting in my bright yellow Adirondack lawn chair at the visitor's center.
(aq_0161) I am liking the cows!
(aq_0163) Yes, Vermont does skiing, also.
(aq_0165) Hey! I do love it here! This is a rest stop and visitor center along the Interstate entering New Hampshire
(aq_0167) Concord, New Hampshire - state capitol of New Hampshire
(aq_0169) Standing in front of the State Capitol of New Hampshire
(aq_0170 Replica of the Liberty Bell that is displayed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA.
(aq_0171) Daniel Webster served in the U.S. Congress for many years in the 1800s and served
as Secretary of State under three U.S. presidents.
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| 2011-5-31 (Tue) | Sightseeing in Boston area |
(aq_0178) Minute Man Historical Park in Concord, MA (north of Boston)
(aq_0181) Minute Man statue at North Bridge
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(aq_0185) Cambridge,Massachusetts (Boston area) - famous Harvard University
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(aq_0196) Cambridge, Massachusetts - famous MIT University (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(aq_0197) MIT - some kind of sculpture that is lit up from inside. I cannot determine what it is either.
(aq_0198) MIT - one of the original buildings on campus
| 2011-6-3 (Fri) |
Newport, Rhode Island |
(aq_0200) Aircraft carrier at Newport Naval Base
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(aq_0203) Same bridge at twilight from the Navy base
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| 2011-6-5 (Sat) |
Hanscom AFB, MA in Boston area |
(aq_0207) Back working at Hanscom AFB on Saturday
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| 2011-6-4 (Sat) |
Visiting my high school principal, Le Thi Cuc, in Boston |
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| 2011-6-5 (Sun) | Sightseeing in Rockport, MA and coast on way to next work location |
(aq_0212) Rockport, MA - a small seacost village north of Boston famous for the lobster shanty shown in the sign and has
lots of tourist
(aq_0214) Rockport, MA - The harbor master of Rockport.
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(aq_0218) Rockport, MA - one of the many seafood restaurants in town
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(aq_0220) Fornham's seafood restaurant outside of Rockport, MA
(aq_0221) With so many people waiting for the food must be good. So, I had to stop for some clam chowder.
(aq_0226) Entering New Hampshire from Massachusetts
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(aq_0230) At Portsmouth, NH, I enter Maine on my way to the outlet stores. My car automatically drives to outlet stores. I cannot
control it.
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(aq_0232) York, Maine - Cape Neddick Lighthouse north of Portsmouth, NH where I will be working for two days.
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(aq_0239) Someone feeding the seagulls
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(aq_0248) I am looking for clams between the rocks to make my own clam chowder. Not really!
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(aq_0252) Fox's Lobster House restaurant next to the lighthouse
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(aq_0254) Portsmouth, NY - I got twin lobster dinner-to-go from the Warren's Lobster House restaurant to take back to my hotel
room as I did not want to eat alone at the restaurant. So, I ate a lonely dinner in my room.
(aq_0255) Dinner included make-your-own-salad, chicken soup, rice pilaf, pumpkin bread. Lots of food to eat after a week of not going
out to eat at restaurants with working long hours last week. So, I treated myself.
(aq_0256) When in Maine, you just have to eat lobster.
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| 2011-6-8 (Wed) | Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
(aq_0259) Some ladies I met while working at the Portsmouth Navy Base Commissary