VANITY: Advice on travelling through New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts

Me ^ | 09/21/2020 | Me

[farming pharmer]

Looking for travel advice from Ohio to New Hampshire. I will be going through:

New York:
Buffalo
South of Rochester
Syracuse
Utica
Schenectady

Massachusetts:
Springfield
Worcester
Way west of Boston to Lowell:

New Hampshire:
Salem

Looking for information on places to avoid due to ANTIFA/BLM activity.

We will be day travelling only. Do any of our east coasters have any advice?

[Jane Long]

My advice: Don’t do it!

Kidding....I hope you get some great FReeper input/advice.

Safe travels.

[SamAdams76]

Looks like your journey will be safe. I live in Southern Connecticut now but still get up to the Lowell, MA area frequently as that is where most of my family still lives.

Also spent two weeks camping in New Hampshire this summer. Depending on where you will be, you might see a lot of Trump signs!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Stop by the Springfield Armory Museum while you are there.

[EvilCapitalist]

Don’t have anything on your car that would identify you as a Trump supporter.

[LIConFem]

Stick to the more rural routes. Keep food in the car, ready to eat so you don’t have to stop during the day. Stop at rural motels only after sunset and check out/leave before sunrise. Good luck.

[Chode]

in NY just stay on the thruway from one end to the other

[farming pharmer]

Safe travels.

Thank You!

[Eccl 10:2]

Don’t stop inside the city limits anywhere on the route.

[ocrp1982]

Put a Biden/Harris sticker on your car. Preferably a Prius or Smart Car.

[farming pharmer]

Looks like your journey will be safe. I live in Southern Connecticut now but still get up to the Lowell, MA area frequently as that is where most of my family still lives.

Thank you for the reply. Don't they have an Observatory in Lowell, or am I wrong?

[Raycpa]

Get an ezpass from ma.

[farming pharmer]

Stop by the Springfield Armory Museum while you are there.

OMG I completely forgot about that. Will give it a good shot. Thank you for the reply.

[SuperLuminal]

Be safer driving from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi...

[matt04]

Springfield/Worcester has had a few BLM protests in late spring/early summer but not much since.

As far as I recall, they never went after the highways in Springfield but stayed to the local streets in the area of courthouses or police stations. I believe they tried to block a few major roads in the Worcester area but again that was back in May/June and not much since.

[farming pharmer]

Don’t have anything on your car that would identify you as a Trump supporter.

Good advice. I'm a big believer in the 'Gray Man' philosophy, so bumper stickers are verboten. Thank you for the advice though.

[Bell Bouy II]

don’t do Springfield after dark

[ronniesgal]

have fun! Try to go to Salem before October cause the whole month is busy with witchery.

[SamAdams76]

Not in Lowell, MA, too close to Boston and the skies are not conducive to star-gazing. You must be thinking of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ!

My family lives just outside Lowell, towns like Chelmsford, Westford, Tyngsboro and Carlisle. I would stay away from Lowell proper. Some parts of it are very rough. Passing though on main drags like I-495 or Route 3 is no problem. But the towns I mentioned are very nice and scenic - lot of farms and the roadside farmstands this time of year will have tons of fresh produce.

[farming pharmer]

Stick to the more rural routes. Keep food in the car, ready to eat so you don’t have to stop during the day. Stop at rural motels only after sunset and check out/leave before sunrise. Good luck.

Good advice and we'll definitely have food and water in the car. We are trying to stop as little as possible, but every few hours to stretch is necessary.