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Not sure where you live but I live in Southern Michigan so we don't have big mountains. I have been to New Hampshire a couple times. I LOVE the mountains! I would probably do the same thing you did and go for a nice hike. I can't wait to go back or go to a place with great atmosphere and scenery like NH or a place with big mountains. Good choice!
My dream for when we retired was to buy a Winnebago, tack on a 16' fishing boat behind it and travel the country to every freshwater fishing lake in it. First, we'd work our way from Philly to Lake Winnebago (in Minnesota), lake by lake, and Michigan was even going to cause a small detour just so I could say we drove to "London" too. Truthfully, I dreamed of the lakes we'd hit in PA, and then the lakes after OH, (OH, seems like a bunch of cities lumped together), including your state. So, it surprises me you don't think your state is lovely. It's got lakes! What else is needed? lol