Excerpt from Seeing the Eastern StatesBut should the projected vacation journey so care fully planned prove impossible the long summer will seem to loom ahead dark, gloomy, forbidding. Such a vision is so unpleasant that most people are apt to resist the suggestion that they decide to make the best of a bad business and get as good a vacation as possible without leaving home. How can they be expected to find pleasure in a place the resources of which were exhausted long ago?But have the resources of the square miles near home been entirely exhausted? Has it never occurred to us that there is a possibility of seeing the familiar things in a new way, to say nothing of seeing among them familiar sights that never met our eyes before?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.