Newport Mansions

... I could have spent a week walking around. Or at least a few days driving a scooter. My truck is just too bulky. Then the Newport Mansions. The pictures barely show it all. I didn't go into any of the houses because they wanted $11 per house. Besides why ...

Saturday morning, Jill's parents arranged a Trolley Tour of the Newport Mansions for anyone interested so we decided we would check it out. It was really foggy that morning so we couldn't see everything all that well but the mansions we saw were still ...

... visitor center based near the port.  We head over and get a daily bus pass and set out the see more of the Newport Mansions we had not gotten into last time.  While many of the mansions of the early masters of the industrial revolution have ...

... Gilded Age" these homes make Versailles look average.  The Vanderbilt's, Astor's and all the other industrialists built their summer mansions for a six week annual stint. Such decadence - some had platinum inlaid walls, gilt every where, stain glass and ...

... home! The people across the street were having a party. The mansion two doors down is for sale. I was blown away. The great mansions we hear of (really only 5-6) are just a few on a street where people still live! IN STYLE! And play basketball, ...

... supressed and hidden and that has to be the worst kind.  It could blow at any point.     The mansions are almost a physical metaphor (spare me) of what I am experiencing and feeling in the states.  Why just have cereal for ...

... road via Beverley Hills and Bell Air. I got lost in Bell Air as the roads are mad and all the houses are the same, mansions. One rd called Mulholland Drive goes right up to the top of the hills and is the most impossible road to get off. Behind schedule ...

... a shady spot in a park and watched the world go by.  Later on we drove along Bellevue Avenue and gawped at the mansions – fantastical houses ranging from gothic revival style to copies of Versailles, built by the Vanderbilts etc at the end of the ...

... . This place really is a nice relaxing place to go on a stroll. You are surrounded by beautiful seasonal houses, wait no, mansions. The area is just unbelievable, I wish I could afford to live there! Upon our walk we stumbled across these random steps ...

... surfaces that follows the cliff-faced coast of Newport.  The cliffs themselves are rather small, but many of the massive, historical mansions are visible along the path and it was something to do that didn't cost another $20.  After hiking the ...