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Thank you Tom, Emily, and Samwise for sharing the gorgeous pictures and journey to the Cape, so amazing! Emily loves her lobster I can tell, made me smile!🥰

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Loved the pictures. I hope one day to visit the Cape in off-season since I’m retired. My favorite picture is Emily and the lobster. As always thank you for sharing

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Those photos! The colors!! Truly amazing.

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Thank you so much for this beautiful post and for allowing me to return to the Cape thru your words!!!!

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Tom you are so right - i love everything about the cape but only on "off season" --- great pics and post, as usual!

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Jul 3Liked by Tom Ryan

The card, the text, the interconnected energies of the world. I am a firm believer in those coincidences whose gifts you often don’t even fully realize until some later time.

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Amen to that magic found only in the soft margins!

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I also enjoy the Cape letters for traveling letters. But most of all I love your letters from the hobbit hole, where you are surrounded by two wonderful spirits, reminders of so much reciprocal love, memories of Argon and the Jackson Five, and just the coziness and routine of a wonderful life. I can feel your fondness for the memories that exist in that wonderful place

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I relate to the letter from your friend-in-writing, Tom. It's been the coastal stays that have burrowed most into my psyche. Probably Cape Cod because of The Outermost House, but also Morro Bay. It's the poetry from the Cape that touches my soul though, and I would never have found it at all if you hadn't mentioned Rachel Carson (and Henry Beston and Mary Oliver and a dozen others whose words now fill a journal I'm keeping) in your writings.

Thank you so much for your acute and sensitive observations.

PS: the lobster and Em are priceless!

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Lovely. That pic of Emily with the lobster is so stinking cute ❤️ as is the one with Rachel Carson's statue. Also love the sunrise one on the Cape. Amazing how well these smart phone cameras take such glorious pics.

Hope you're enjoying begin back in NH. And you're right about North Conway being one big strip mall. So sad, I used to love coming up here 40+ years ago, heck even 30 years ago, when it was a quaint ski town without much going on except the Saco River Campground, skiing Mt. Cranmore, and going to Headlines 🤣 I'm up here now on vacation and even driving through Conway on a Tuesday morning to take train trip on the railroad was crowded, I can't imagine what this weekend is going to be like *sigh* It will be my last vacation up here for quite a while.

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The sunrise at Pam’s rental is just magnificent.

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The photos are amazing. I enjoy knowing all the places you stayed and your reviews of each. Looking forward to more! Onward!

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As always a fabulous read Tom!!! Thank you for sharing as always!!

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Tom, this has been the most educational road trip on all the historic authors, just loved it! Can't thank you enough for sharing all your knowledge and of course the wonderful photo's.

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Your letters inspire and transport........Samwise and Emily always touch my heart.

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Love, love, love the random photo. So wonderful to revisit your visit last winter. Brings back such nice memories as I so enjoy reading about your travels.

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Jul 2Liked by Tom Ryan

Superb images, so evocative.

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