This is Tim...by the way. Today we woke up in a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, Rhode Island. They put us in a disability room after looking at us and asking us how much we have been eating. They thought that we needed wide doors and handles to support ourselves. And we would not be able to lift ourselves into a tub. Turned out well. It is hard to believe that one week ago I was dieting...and today...well...life is good again. But we will hit the diet thing hard once we are home! Too much to try and taste while we travel about.
Our day started with one of the standard breakfast affairs. After eating, we had to make some decisions about when to leave this area. Since we rented the car in Boston, we have to return the car to Boston as a drop fee in this area is about $200. In reality, that seems cheap if you look at the cost of hotels in the Boston area. Hotels with shuttles and such run around $300 to $500 per night. I saw a Motel 6 for $180! Crazy. So we decided that we will leave tomorrow and catch an11:40 AM flight to Newark and then ‘hope’ to get on to Buffalo. The EWR to BUF flights are small...and close to being sold out. But we have learned that you just never know. The trick, however, will be to get to Boston since we re-booked another night here in Warwick...which is about 50 miles from the airport. We’ll be driving through Providence and Boston traffic to get there. We’re giving ourselves about 2.5 hours to get there. We shall see.
We left the hotel at about 10 AM and headed into Providence to see the government buildings there. We went into the RI Capitol with a million school kids. It sounded like a beehive in there. As are most capitols, it was quite the beautiful building. In the Senate room, they were doing a cool thing with the students. Each student was at a Senator’s desk. They had some ‘officials’ up on the stand discussing a bill to eliminate ‘School Snow Day Makeups’. It was fun to hear the kids explain why and why not that would be a good thing. Pretty memorable for the children.
After leaving the capitol, we drove around the downtown area of Providence and up one of the hills to Brown University. Pretty nice campus. Pretty area. We then headed to I95 again to drive down to New London, Connecticut. Denise found out that there were some lighthouses there. We used the GPS to load one of the addresses. We followed it into New London. But when it deposited us in the middle of a neighborhood, we realized that the GPS had failed. We then used coordinates to track to it...it was just around the corner. We then found ourselves on some private beaches. Even the lighthouse was a private building. So we got out, walked the beach and took a few quick pictures.
And then we were off again...this time to find a bathroom and food. We ended up at a couple of ‘food’ shacks. But first, Denise ran crazily into a Real Estate office begging to use their facilities. They were really nice ane let her empty her bladder. I ended up with an extremely expensive lobster roll and Denise ordered clam chowder hoping it was of the New England variety. However, it was the RI variety. I thought it was really good...but more like a chicken soup only with clams. Denise was not overly impressed.
After lunch, we then began to struggle on what to do next. We decided to drive to another coastal town called North Kingstown. We thought we would just check it out. We got there. But while driving, we learned that a ferry left from there to go to Marsha’s Vineyard. We both kind of got excited about doing that although the price was a bit steep. But upon calling them a few times, we learned that it does not start running until June 5th. We were bummed out a bit. So we had to stop and get some ice cream from a nice shop in the middle of nowhere.
We then decided that we would go to a movie....which we did. It turned out to be a pretty good show. It was called, ‘Far From The Madding Crowd'. We have no idea why it was named that...but it was a good movie.
After the movie, we decided that we would look up a ‘Fish and Chips’ place. The same restaurant kept popping up on our devices. So off we went. It was about 5 miles away. As we winded into neighborhoods, it started to feel similar to what happened to us earlier...a dead end. But no...we pull into this tiny strip mall in the middle of a neighborhood only to find out this good place is only open for dinner on Fridays. We should have called. We then looked up another place...but as we were driving, we called. No one answered. So we decided to head back to the hotel. But as we were driving, we came across a nice looking place just a few blocks from our hotel. We swung into it and had a nice dinner...pretty good food.
After dinner, we came back to the hotel and listed ourselves on flights. We then headed to the hot tub to soak a little while and now I’m blogging. But I need to get to bed to get some sleep.
Denise and I both said to each other that this has been an amazing adventure that we will always remember. But we are tired and burning out. We are excited to see Michael and his family in Buffalo. But we are ready to get home.
Wish us luck for tomorrow!
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