Wanderlust................

..........a very strong or irresistible impulse to travel.

Summer vacation time is here.

I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow. Off to picturesque New England with DH and 'traveling granddaughter'. It's where I lived for 12 years before before coming South.

No Porch rocking for a week.

Boston beans. Plymouth Rock. Newport cliff mansions. White Mountains of New Hampshire. Green Mountains of Vermont. Maine lobster. Clambakes. Old Man of the Mountains. Old Stomping Grounds. Independence Day parade. New England shore. LL Bean (open 24 hrs. 365 days!). Hometown happiness.

DH is from New Hampshire, a truly beautiful state. We will meet up with his older brother and his wife who are flying in from Arizona to celebrate and enjoy an old-fashioned 4th of July in a small country town. Time will be spent at the coast, munching lobster rolls and dipping little neck clams in drawn butter!

Sun, sea oats, and the Atlantic ocean.

We'll be driving around a lot and I'll have the chance to meet a blog friend whom some of you know...........Janet of Housepeepers who lives in Massachusetts. Janet is funny and friendly and I'm really looking forward to meeting her. Do visit her blog - she's just returned from a Mediterranean cruise and has posted beautiful pictures (and hilarious stories) of Naples, Isle of Capri, Malta and Rome, with lots more to come.

Brocante in Carcasssone, France - October 2008

Last, and by no means least, I'll be antiques hunting along the highways and byways of the charming New England states. I've already found a shop where I just might find some French treasures, can't wait to get there.

I'll post, and visit you............if I have time and WI-FI is available.

Enjoy your 4th of July celebration...................wherever you are.