Blogs from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 2

I'm officially half way through my American Adventure! How exciting! It's the end of the two week session now and I am absolutely EXHAUSTED! Two weeks without a break slowly sucks the life out of you!! Luckily we get a two day weekend to recover! This session we had two out of camp trips! One to a little river to do some kayaking which was kind of cool we saw a whole bunch of wildlife and kayaked around and ate in the boats and what not! I got super burnt because I kept reminding the kids to put sunblock on and forgot to do my own. It turned into quite a nice tan but now it's massively peeling off :( The other trip was to go White Water rafting which was really really fun. The white ... read more

As it has been a MONTH since I could last be bothered (I will not lie, it wasn't a case of not having any time) to write a post, I do believe its well time that I write another one, and update you all on my adventures. Where I last left off, I was on my way to the grand town of Norman, Oklahoma to visit Jay, one of my really good friends from exchange in Germany. They had just suffered from some massive ice storms when I got there, and some people, such as Jay's parents, still didn't have electricity after a WEEK. Luckily Jay's place had some, or there may have not been Oklahoma for me, as I am still in shock that these people lived for a week in sub freezing temperatures without ... read more

Sat. Oct 27th. Cutty Hunk Pond, MA. Still here and we are not going any where. The wind is blowing hard and we see white caps all around us in a protected area. It would be insane for us to go outside. So we are hanging here for the day. Ximena studied a little bit. Vitto fixed the pump for the autopilot, the problem was a worn out spring. ... read more

On our way to Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, we stopped at Mystic Seaport and Newport, Rhode Island. Mystic has an old ship, a museum, an aquarium, and a "village" of shops to wander through. We spent some time wandering around and evjoying teh local scenery, which was fun. Then we went on to Newport, where we did some more walking around, had a fantastic dinner (where Paul tried a crab claw!), and then spent the next morning checking out some of the masions built there. The mansions were built at around the same time as the Biltmore (late 19th, early 20th century) as summer homes for the extremely wealthy. They were only lived in for about 6-8 weeks a year, by families with namkes like "Vanderbilt" and "Astor". A few of the mansions are gaudy ... read more