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About Us
We’ve spent years chasing warm weather, turquoise water, and sea breezes across the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, and beyond. But New England has always had a claim on us. We lived there for years, and even after trading in the cold winters for warmer latitudes, we’ve been making our way back every fall for decades. Some places just have a season that belongs to them, and fall belongs to New England.
It’s a hard pull to explain to someone who hasn’t felt it. The smell of woodsmoke and fallen leaves. The ridiculous colors on a hillside in Vermont. A bowl of chowder in a harbor town when the tourist crowds have thinned out. Cider donuts warm from the fryer. A covered bridge that looks like it belongs on a postcard.
Fall Into New England exists because we think this slice of America in autumn is one of the most underrated seasonal experiences on the planet. And we wanted a guide we actually wished existed: opinionated, practical, and written by people who have lived here, driven the routes, and keep coming back year after year because they genuinely can’t help it.
We cover all six states, from the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the historic streets of Salem to the rugged coastline of Acadia. Whether you’re planning a weekend escape to Vermont or a multi-week fall road trip through the whole region, we’ve got guides, itineraries, and honest recommendations to help you make the most of it.
The Team
Daniel Mode
Co-Founder / Writer / Editor
Daniel is a writer, editor, and web creator who has visited more than 45 countries across five continents. Before becoming a full-time international traveler in 2013, he spent a decade living in New England, including time in Boston working as a content creator for the Discovery Channel. Those years gave him a deep familiarity with the region’s seasons, its quirks, and exactly which back roads turn into something magical in October. He has been returning to New England in the fall ever since, logging countless miles across all six states in search of the best foliage, the coziest inns, and the most convincing argument for moving back. He co-founded the Island Life Guides network with his partner, Laura, in 2020.
Laura Schulthies
Co-Founder / Writer / Editor
Laura brings more than 15 years of journalism and travel writing experience to the team. She has traveled to and lived in over 40 countries worldwide, studying in Guatemala, Mexico, and Thailand, and always seeking the most authentic local angle wherever she lands. New England has been a constant in her travels over the years, and she has explored the region extensively across multiple seasons. Laura is endlessly curious, deeply opinionated about which bed and breakfasts are worth the money, and probably the reason any of our itineraries actually work as road trips. She has a particular soft spot for New England’s coastal towns and any menu that features a proper lobster roll!
Vanessa Howard
Writer/Editor
Vanessa is a freelance travel writer with over eight years in the industry, and she brings something most travel writers can’t claim: she actually lived in Maine. That firsthand experience with New England life, its rhythms, its winters, its towns, informs everything she writes for this site. Internationally, she has explored Costa Rica, Iceland, Scotland, and beyond. When she’s not on assignment, Vanessa roams the United States in her RV with her partner and their three dogs, with a particular obsession with National Parks and golden-hour sunsets. Her deep research habits and knack for collaborating with local experts mean the guides she writes come loaded with the kind of detail that actually helps you plan a real trip.
Tim Rompfer
Fact Checker
Tim grew up in Canada and has spent a lifetime exploring North America, the Caribbean, and Europe, with a deep familiarity with the colder climates and shoulder seasons that define the New England experience. He knows what real autumn feels like, which makes him a natural fit for a site built around the best fall destination in America. As a former engineer, Tim’s sharp attention to detail ensures the accuracy of the facts, figures, and recommendations across our guides. If Tim signed off on it, you can trust it.
The Fall Into New England Promise
Throughout Fall Into New England and our other online guides, you may find affiliate links to businesses where we collect a small commission if you click on them. This is how we keep the lights on but does not influence our recommendations in any way. We would never recommend something we don’t personally love and trust. If you ever find a recommendation in any of our guides that you think isn’t up to par, send us an email below and let us know. We’ll check it out, and if you are correct that something we recommended has indeed fallen from grace, we will swiftly take it down. A few dollars commission is not worth losing the trust of you, our website visitors. You are why we do this. That is the Fall Into New England Promise.