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Providence Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Providence, United States
The Birth of the Semi-Backpacker
This is a top pick! After so many months of planning, dreaming, talking and googling, my trip is finally here! I'd like to say that this Bronx-born city girl that's never been camping is doing a 360 and packing a tent and sleeping bag in her backpack; HOWEVER, I am ...
A short trip back home to celebrate my 30th bday
This is a top pick! COMING HOME Fearless traveler or not, I wanted to spend my 30th birthday in the company of family, friends and a few Patron Tequila shots. This pit stop also gave me time to pause and reflect on my trip thus far. Here's what I've learned in the ...
Home for the holidays
This is a top pick! IT ALL STARTED WITH THANKSGIVING AND A CHRISTMAS TREE... Doña Nuris and her son, David have been very friendly and welcoming to me since I moved into their Ciudad Colon neighborhood a few months ago. They have invited me over to their house many times ...
Providence
"Paging passenger Posluszny, please come to Gate 15 for an on-time departure of Flight 377." Yes, I almost missed my plane.. the first plane of many to get out to Australia. It wasn't my fault though, the Southwest people told me the wrong gate ...
colorful
I like the colorful underpass. Often recently every time I go under these it gets dark and the road is a mess. I kind of laugh because you don't know it's comin then as soon as the sun is out, there are many pot holes and broken bottles and straight up ...
Little Rhody
... may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments." After the museum, I wandered through the older streets of Providence and stopped by Prospect Park which had a halfway-decent view of the city. I then continued on until ...
Southwest #549 Providence to Chicago
We had a great flight from Providence to Chicago. Mommy had never flown on Halloween before. There were free drinks and the crew was all dressed in costumes. We, of course, were dressed in our Southwest gear. The flight attendants ...
Roger got it right
... was established here in 1638. Ivy League Brown University is the seventh oldest college in the country. Nearby Newport is famous for its shipbuilding, yachting and boating. Providence, Rhode Island Population 175,901 Elevation 24 Eastern time ...
5 Hotels & an Airport Floor Later...
... The Office, and the few interactions I had couldn't have been friendlier. A nice little overnight stop :) And so now I'm in Providence Rhode Island, which I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen enough of. This is partly due to the constant rain, and partly ...
Zwei State Capitols an einem Tag
... ganzen marmornen Pracht auf einem Hügel über Downtown thront. An der sehr schön angelegten Promenade spazieren wir den Providence River entlang, dann klettern wir die steile College Street hinauf zum Campus der Brown University. Immer wieder schön ...
76. New England
... the spring flowers in the ivy league campus of Brown University and down to one of America´s oldest libraries, the Providence Athenaeum. Seeing all the students inside studying amongst all those old books and the handwritten index cards made me want to ...
Southwest #640 - My 40th flight!
At the end of our flight, we took several pictures to commemorate my 40th flight! Dzidziu was able to get an escort pass so that he could meet us at the end of the jetway to help Mommy. We ran around the gate area for a while to use some ...
Brown University
... , it was some Rhode Island state holiday today, so the bookstore was closed. Nota bene: If you ever find yourself in Providence and you want to visit Brown, do not attempt to drive to campus in a 38-foot RV. The streets are curvy, narrow, and ...
On the route to Cape Cod
... "you can buy everything you want" society....all those products we never saw for months. Anyway, we had a short stop at Providence to have a look around. A small city, recently cleaned and with a nice canal, but still lots of dangerous looking citizens ...
Erster Programmpunkt: Shopping
... hier im Nordosten. Nach einem kleinen Frühstück bei Starbucks gegenüber machen wir uns mitten in der Rushhour an Providence vorbei auf Richtung Massachusetts. Und irgendwie sind wir dann viel zu früh am Einkaufs-Tempel. Die Zeit bis zur ...
Me, Myself, Corinne and Mike
... went and had a look at the State Building for Rhode Island . After this we headed up the hill over the river onto East Providence where all the college students from Brown and RISD hang out. The views of Providence as we got near the top of the ...
And another new State
... one or two headstones from the early 1700s. Crazy. The weather was really nice - sunny and 70's. We spent Saturday walking around Providence and I got to go to Armegedon Shop. Curiously I did not purchase anything... We visited a library from like 1779. ...
The Pumpkins Welcome You
... order to be on the map I set off onto the streets of Providence, Rhode Island, the eleventh state I’ve visited in the United States. After feeling lost in quiet suburbia for the first three blocks I soon saw some activity to my left and made ...
Planing in Providence
23 April 2007, Greetings from supprisingly sunny Providence, Rhode Island. We are wrapping up final preparations for our trip and studying hard for our upcoming exams and final papers here at brown University. Only one month to ...
Providence, RI
As mentioned in the earlier blog, I took a train from Boston to arrive in Providence where the hotel shuttle picked me up to take me to the hotel. The last time I was in Boston, was during my first official week of solo training almost a year and a ...
Day 3 - The First Baptist Church in America
We attended Easter services at the First Baptist Church in America. The church was in Providence Rhode Island. Not only was it the first Baptist church in the country, but it was also the very first church of any kind in Rhode ...
End of the road - Heading to Providence
... . Anyways, we got to Rhode Island (cruzing at 37,000 feet or ~7 miles up. My last sights as we flew into T.F. Green (Providence): high clouds > 395 in CT > low clouds > Watch Hill / Westerly (probably right over my house) > clouds > Narragansett Bay > ...
Planes, Traines & Automobiles
... Laura.Hailes in the TravelPod search bar. Haven kindly drove Laura to the airport and me to the Amtrak (train) station in Providence. We said our goodbyes, I dropped my bags at the station and headed out to look around Providence. As you can see from the ...
Providence and more!
... on her back porch catching up with each other and playing catch with Cocoa, the four-legged family member of the house. I left for Providence, but made one intermediate stop before going to the airport to pick up Mom and Dad. I went the Johnson and Wales ...
Day one of 14!
... attendant who had lost her ID. Which meant we were late getting into Detroit for my connection. Wouldn't you know, my gate for Providence was on the other end of the airport. Hopped on Detroit airport's inside people mover and just made it in time to ...
Vores kvarter - La nostra zona
Velkommen til 576 (Leo: cinque-sette-sei eller sei-sette-cinque eller sette-sei-cinque). Her bor vi :-) Det er et fint, gammelt victoriansk hus og har som et af de få i området murstensmure i stueetagen. De fleste huse her er af træ, malet i alle ...
