Comment from Rhonda Bouchard on April 23, 2008

I'd go to Ogunquit, Maine ! It's been a childhood memory all my life and I've gone there every single year since I was a baby. I'm now approaching my 50th birthday and I still find it as exciting, relaxing and as peaceful as ever. All I have to have is a beach chair, some suntan lotion and my towel.....let the rest take care of itself. Last year in July when my Father passed away, it was ONE day prior to my annual Maine vacation. Two days after his funeral, I asked my best friend in the entire world to make the pilgrimage with me for a couple of days of peace. It was the best medicine. And when she and I had a tomatoe and bologna sandwich on white bread on the beach ( a sandwich from my childhood!!!).......it was just what the doctor ordered. So yes...Ogunquit !!!!!

Comment from Donald Smith on April 26, 2008

I'd spend the week in Woods Hole about August 10th. That's when the water at the beach below Nobska Light is warmest all summer. It's the time when you can sit on the deck at Landfall Restaurant eating baked stuff shrimp and watching the Nantucket boat come and go. And an early afternoon beer is great at the bar at Captain Kidd's. Walk down the street and watch the kids gawking at the fish tanks from above at the aquarium. And sit on the MBL dock and try a little fishing. Sometimes it's just fun to pick a spot to sit on Water Street with a copy of the latest edition of the Falmouth Enterprise and listen to the conversations of those who pass by.

Comment from Barbara Najera on April 26, 2008

I lived in Bath from one month of age to 16 yrs; lived on many different streets from North to South , and attended St.Mary's school and church. .I have been back on several visits, the last time in 1987. I still miss my dear old Bath after all these years. Have been forced to live in California because I married a native in 1943 and we are still happily together. (and I say happily, even though my husband still refuses to move from his beloved California.) I am now 82 yrs of age and how I would love to see my dear old Bath again !

Comment from Linda Vrotney on April 30, 2008

I would go to the Madison Beach Hotel in Madison, Ct. I have never felt so at peace as when I was there. Just to sit on the rocks and watch the tide come in is a feeling second to none. It is such a comfortable place to be. I am now on oxygen continuously, so I doubt if I will make the trip back, but it will forever remain in my memory as the best place ever.

Comment from Elaina Griffith on May 12, 2008

Growing up in the White Mountains in the days when gas was cheap, our family entertainment consisted of travelling the roads of northern New England armed with picnic lunches, and taking in its natural beauties a couple of Saturdays a month. Our favorite family pilgrimage was to Pemaquid Point, where we would climb all over the rocks, handfeed the gulls our leftovers, and sit for hours watching the waves crash and the boats skim by. Pemaquid is definitely my destination of first choice, BUT...I'll cheat and add a second! Being a mountain girl, I moved across "the river" from the Whites to the Greens in my adulthood, and fell in love with the incomparable pastoral beauty of central Vermont village-life. My dream week in VT would be tent camping at Lake Dunmore, and laying on the rocks midstream near the top of the Falls of Lana with a good book, listening to the babble of the brook and breathing in the fresh pine-scented air. For the past 4 years, as an expatriate Yank in the suburban South, I have often ached for my familial, geographical and cultural landscape--Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont...home.

Comment from Kathleen Schneider on May 17, 2008

I would love to spend some time at a quaint seashore resort somewhere along the coast of New England. I'm not very familiar with the New England coast; I'm a Jersey Girl (I mean woman!!!) who has spend many, many years at the Jersey shore from Sandy Hook to Cape May. A Jersey Girl who is always interested in expanding her horizons.