A blustery January weekend on Little Deer Isle
January 2021 One of my favorite things about living in the Northeast is how easy it is to visit nearby states and attractions. Within a few hours in any direction you can head to the coast or the mountains. Previous to our move to New Hampshire in Dec of 2015, we lived in El Paso, Texas for several years. The desert is beautiful, but also very vast and Texas is a huge state. To put it in perspective, to drive from El Paso to Austin takes you about 12 hours. I did it once, it was a beautiful drive but a short weekend trip is definitely out of the question. Since moving here, one of the places I have of course fell in love with is the Maine coast. We try to make at least one long weekend trip a year, exploring different areas. COVID-19 obviously waylaid some time to make a visit, but with conditions improving slightly albeit slowly, residents of Maine and New Hampshire can travel across each other's border without quarantin...