Blogs from Rhode Island, United States, North America

Our condo was so nice and huge! We made our own breakfast at our leisure! The view from the deck was gorgeous. Ed got up real early hoping to take a picture of the sunrise over the water, but learned we were going to get to see the sunset….the sunrise was on the other side of our building!!! Following breakfast we’d took off to go tour The Breakers, one of the beautiful mansions you could visit here in Newport. In the mid 1800’s wealthy southern planters seeking to beat the heat began to build their summer “cottages” along Bellevue Avenue in Newport. Several years later wealthy northerners began building larger mansions nearby. By the turn of the century many of the nations wealthiest families were spending their summers in Newport. They included the Vanderbilts, who built ... read more

Today we were headed for Newport, Rhode Island and we headed off east along Highway 20 connecting with Highway 146 down to the State Capital of Providence, and down Interstate i195 to Newport. We went via some backroads through small towns and started to see some nice foliage colours and the overall travel time was around 2.5 hours today. I tried hard to find a diner on our way but had no luck so we kept on driving and driving and we eventually got so far we decided to keep on going all the way. As we entered Rhode Island it ticked off our 47th state visited and state # 7 on this trip (only 3 more to go !) The weather was mostly fine but still quite cold around 14 degrees but eventually turned to ... read more

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As my 36th tax season has now ended we decided to take a second try at some time on Block Island. The trip was originally scheduled for the week after the first half of tax season was over in April, however, that was thwarted by client demands and a different and shorter trip to Portland, Maine was taken in stead. Fortunately, the Blue Dory Inn, was kind enough to just transfer our deposit on the room to be used for another trip. This has sort of been the theme of travel during covid, United Airlines gave us a large travel credit when we had to cancel our second redo of our future Ireland/Scotland trip (which is now on for May 2022). So, 6 months later, here we are on Block Island ... read more

Not much to say about Sunday, just a day of getting to know the area in a Zipcar. We used the day to get a head start on daily living. Where is the Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Farmer's Market, the wine store, and so on. It was a beautiful day, low 80's no humidity until it was time for dinner. We had a quick lunch in the car, sandwiches from Eastside Market, an upscale market between a Safeway and Whole Foods. That was pretty much the day. Dinner was at Hemenway'S, possibly the best seafood in the city. It was a very quick walk from the hotel and sits on the edge of a park on the river. The decisions were difficult, there were several things that just looked really good, especially in the starters. I ... read more