If you charge to get abroad from it all this anniversary season, booty your stressed-out cocky to a abode area activity is a bit beneath complicated. Real Simple Magazine's managing editor, Kristin van Ogtrop , discusses with Sarah Sekula for USA TODAY some spots in which to decompress.
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Block Island, R.I.
Block Island can be authentic by what it lacks: There are no stoplights, no McDonald's, no Anniversary Inns. Instead, the boondocks of beneath than 1,000 year-round association "is a mural of freshwater ponds, rolling blooming hills and affecting 250-foot bluffs," van Ogtrop says. In winter, Block Island becomes an artists' community. 800-383-2474; blockislandinfo.com
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
