Upstate

I live in New Jersey, so almost every family I know spends a lot of time at “the shore” during the summer.  Some take day trips and others are lucky enough to have a week long rental with grandparents, but everybody loves the beach.  I have to tell you, I feel a little “meh” about the beach.  I have fun when I am there, but it is not the vacation I would choose.  I am a woods and mountain girl.  If I can get away in the summer, I like to go someplace where the nights are cool and the landscape is green.  Here is my baby in the place where my soul feels most at home: