re: Manchester, Vermont Area Recs

Just finished this trip up.

Really enjoyed it. We missed Fall for the most part at our main stay around Woodstock but it was still pretty great area. We caught some glimpses of foliage in Southern NH, Maine, and Boston.

Portsmouth is a great town. Not a destination by any means but a great side quest or day trip. Cleanest downtown I’ve ever seen.

Also super and stupidly woke. Rainbow and BLM flags everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Meanwhile I saw literally one PoC in the entire state.

Portland Maine was ok. It was a cleaner Austin with a bay. Food was fine but my wife said it wasn’t her top lobster roll by any means. Not somewhere I would go back to again.

New Hampshire itself was great. We drove the Kancaamagus and went and saw a few bridges and falls. Would recommend that drive.

Woodstock and Lincoln were nice little towns. Not based on tourism like a “Hallmark” town but more built around skiing on Loon mountain and Flime Gorge.

Anytime I showed my ID for booze they asked why somebody from Texas was there in November. We normally were just there for the summer.

We ended with a rushed day in Boston. Really loved that. Blew NYC out of the water in my opinion.