Some Drives round the Eastern USA, 2001 in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York and 2002 in Denver, Ohio, Tennesee, Georgia and Indiana with stopovers in Iceland and Bermuda on the way. In September 1999 we flew to New York with a stopover in Iceland. We stayed in Westchester and visited New York city and Tarrytown. In March 2001 we flew back to the States with a stopover in Bermuda. We drove from Boston up to Cape Neddick Maine, Portsmouth New Hampshire, Cape Cod, stayed at the Biltmore hotel in Providence Rhode Island, visited Mystic Seaport in Connecticut and on to New York. In March 2002 we were in Boulder Colorado and visited Denver, Central City and Georgetown. On the way back we stopped at Cincinnati Ohio and drove down to Nashville and Chattanooga Tennessee, briefly into Georgia and back up via Cincinnati to Aurora and Rising Sun Indiana. We also had a couple of visits to Toronto Canada (the yellow routes), one time driving via Niagara Falls and Thousand Islands to Ottowa (in 1990) and the other time going by train to Montreal and Quebec (in 2009). A stopover in Iceland in September 1999 We stopped over in Reykjavik, Iceland on the way to New York in September 1999. We visited the Gullfoss waterfall .... .... and the Strokkur geyser .... .... and visited Pingvellir where the European and Atlantic tectonic plates are pulling apart, leaving a bit of a gap in the earth's crust! A stopover in Bermuda in March 2001 On our way to Boston in March 2001 we stopped over in Bermuda, where we saw flamingos at the Aquarium at Flatts Village .... .... and St George's harbour from Ordnance Island. From Boston to New York, March 2001 Finally we arrived in the USA! The Old State House in State Street Boston. Built in 1713, it is the oldest surviving public building in Boston. And Paul Revere's House in North Square, Boston back in January 1996. Looks like nobody's home. Provincetown right at the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in March 2001. The Rhode Island State House in Providence, seen from the Biltmore Hotel in March 2001. Mystic Seaport, a fascinating maritime museum on the Connecticut coast. Time for a shopping spree - Saks on Fifth Avenue New York in 1999. More affordable shops in Main Street, Tarrytown in Westchester County NY, March 2001. Philipsburg Manor, a late 17th century manor house with a working mill, at Sleepy Hollow north of Tarrytown, New York. A visit to Colorado in March 2002 Investigating a museum in Central City, Colorado. Central City is an historic mining settlement established in 1859 during the Pike's Peak gold rush. The Trading Post in old Georgetown Colorado, elevation 8,530 feet. Nicknamed the 'Silver Queen of Colorado', Georgetown was also established during the Pike's Peak gold rush. Cincinnati to Chattanooga and quick visits into Georgia and Indiana, March 2002 The Chattanooga Choo Choo - the wood-burning locomotive originally belonging to the Cincinnati Southern Railway that inspired the famous song. Seen in Chattanooga Terminal station Tennessee, now a resort complex. Our excursion into Georgia, at Ringold a few miles from Chattanooga. 'The Chattanooga Valley's oldest and most celebrated winery', established in 1983. Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio A speedy lock company in Cincinnati. A casino in a paddle boat on the Ohio river at Rising Sun, Indiana. We also had some drives around the western USA from 1993 to 1996, click here if you would like to read about them. Or if you would like to see more of our travels just click the map.