Our fall foliage trip this year took us to Martha's Vineyard. We were very excited to visit the location where President Obama vacations with his family.
In order to reach Martha's Vineyard, we had to take a ferry from Woods Hole to Vineyard Haven. We had absolutely beautiful weather for this trip, and Alexi loved riding the ferry.
We stayed at the only campground on Martha's Vineyard, and it was our second time ever camping with Alexi. David poses with our new family tent, and we brought our folding bikes, Alexi's trailer and balance bike to do lots of bike riding on our trip.
One of our greatest discoveries on Martha's Vineyard was a place called Back Door Donuts. The line forms in the early evening at the 'back' of a bakery for some out-of-this-world donuts. David and Alexi enjoyed these donuts for breakfast our first morning in Martha's Vineyard.
We spent the entire weekend on our bikes. On Saturday we biked around the island to three lighthouses, and on Sunday we biked around the state forest loop. That's Alexi in the bike trailer.
We biked to both the West Chop and East Chop Lighthouses.
After a morning of bike riding, we headed to Flying Horses, on the National Register of Historic Places. It is America's Oldest Carousel, and since infancy Alexi has always loved riding carousels.
They look identical, though they are two different lighthouses. The first, with Alexi posed in front, is the East Chop Lighthouse, and the second is the Edgartown Lighthouse (with Alexi and Sharon taking in the view from the top).
The bluest Sound and sky - it was unseasonably warm Columbus Day Weekend. Alexi and Sharon posed in front of Gay Head Lighthouse and then gazed to the sea.
The beautiful white Gay Head Cliffs, a registered natural landmark. Alexi enters the foreground with the cliff and Gay Head Lighthouse in the background.
We had a very early ferry to catch back to the mainland, so we stopped off at the Black Dog when they opened for breakfast on our last day in Martha's Vineyard. What a fabulous fall foliage trip - we may return next year!