Advertisement
Published: October 30th 2008
The night was rainy and windy. Branches fell on the roof of the trailer. This morning, the air is so clean that each leaf on each tree is sharp and clear. Nancy climbed up on the roof to sweep away the leaves on the roof of the slide out and found that the "banches" that fell on the roof were really twigs. They just sounded big. We've spent eight days in this spot. It has been a very nice base from which to launch our adventures all around Massachusetts.
On the road again, we've been noticing that there aren't as many typical chain stores and restaurants that we're used to. There are others instead, like Tim Horton's and Friendly's. There are glorious hillsides of color in Rhode Island, which is about 47 miles by about 35 miles total. It was a sunny day. There are still wildflowers and the most common crop is corn stubble. The most common bird lately is the pigeon. Yuck. By noon, we were through Rhode Island and into Connecticut at our new campsite near New London. They gave us an upgrade to a "premium" spot because the clerk was from Reno! A premium spot has a
lovely patio, a gas barbeque, and very nice patio furniture. We decided to spend the afternoon exploring the coast of Rhode Island and crossing the 2 mile bridge into Newport. We stopped along U.S. 1 ( U.S. 1 is the coast road on both coasts!) to see the ocean (Long Island Sound). The waves were big rollers because of last night's storm. There were even surfers out. We ate lunch at Cap'n Jack's on the beach in their upstairs dining area where we could see the waves and the surfers. Rich rated the chowdah a 3 or a 2. Some people at lunch told us how to get to a place up the coast where the waves were crashing and spraying really high. They said the waves were so high on the rocks that it was almost scary. They'd been here many times and had not seen the waves like that! First, we drove out to Judith Point to the Judith Point Lighthouse to watch the waves. (Hi, Judith!) Then we found the place with the rocks and the big waves. It was definitely impressive! BUT, a normal day on the Pacific looks like that. (Ge that? The pacific? 😊
Life-saving Station
Now the Coast Guard and Homeland Security) Three locals were sitting on the rocks in a place out of the wind to watch the show. They said this was very unusual, so we were glad we lucked out to see it. They tried to convince us to move to Rhode Island because it's so beautiful. Rich was almost convinced. He likes the ocean so much, we think he must have been a sea captain in another life! We never made it to the bridge today.
We went to sleep with memories of the crashing and the spray of the ocean to send us to dreamland.
Advertisement
Tot: 0.174s; Tpl: 0.011s; cc: 12; qc: 49; dbt: 0.0863s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb
T
non-member comment
Newport
Hey lovies! I just finished reading John Jakes' The Gods of Newport. Have been wondering if you would get there. I believe it is now called Aquidneck Island. At any rate, those were some crazy people and amazing 'cottages'. I investigated online. The Cliff Walk appears to be a most excellent adventure, in the true Guthe sense of the word. Thanks for keeping us up to date...can't wait to see your faces! T