Holiday Inn Waterbury

... a great way to travel the country, listening to interesting people, seeing great countryside, just feeling the movement of going someplace different...yes! more more more

Today everyone is gone, just me and Mom. I went swimming at the Y and am trying to work this afternoon...but would rather take a nap and read a new book I bought at a ...

We are moving again tomorrow and it will be to Cromwell, CT as we house sit for other traveling friends who will embark on a 2 month sail from CT to FL. Megan lost her new bike today to some ******* who planned in advance to steal the bike hanging "double ...

The first thing i did is go to my best friend Juliana birthday party and i was the only one to come because all other friends ditch her sec for me i was happy i was happy to go because everybody who was suppose to come didn't watch the other blind side and we went out to eat they should come Juliana just turn 15 year old she is so cool and she is my best friend forever.....:D

... get back there. So after several phone calls, I decided to to venture out on my own.

It was amazing to me how difficult it was to emotionally leave the airport, going out into the world on my own, without much of a plan. It made me think of convicts, and what they must feel like when leaving jail, a place they hated ...

Skipped breakfast and went for brunch with Jan & Jack to a deli in nearby Vernon called Rein's. At the Tuesday Morning in the same strip center I bought a stocking cap for walking about Boston, as the weather is supposed to turn cold. Jan found just the perfect one for me--brown with a few stripes that matches my raincoat.

Drove Chris around Old Wethersfield, the cove and the historic homes ...

Started the day by walking to the Day Break Coffee Roasters on Main Street and having a coffee in their little cafe before walking back to the hotel and sitting with Cookie and Paul while they had breakfast in the hotel. It was wonderful to catch up on all we had done since we last saw them on our Celebrity Solstice cruise, and Cookie gave me some great tips on what to see while in Boston, as she had lived there for ...

... near our hotel and had lunch of thin crust pizza and salad. It reminded me of Olive Garden, only better. Jan & Jack dropped us off at the hotel to get settled and we arranged to meet them later.

After unpacking at our 6th floor room, we walked out the front door to go for a walk and ran into our friends Cookie & Paul Shapiro who drove up from NYC just to see us for a couple of days. Cookie had just had laser ...

Woke to a cloudy, rainy day and went for a seven mile walk. For lunch we ate soup, then Jan and I went downtown to the Mark Twain House Tour. We missed the parking lot and ended up parking on the street, which was fine, although a bit damp. The tour was interesting, but we both agreed it seemed dark and dreary inside, and would have better viewed on a sunny day with light streaming in the beautiful stained glass windows. We went for a coffee ...

Well, we're on the road again - and just added Connecticut as State #40 on our llist of states visited - even if it was just a "drive-by"! We left the Catskills this morning, and expect to be in South Hampton, New Hampshire by about 3 p.m. We'll be staying there for two weeks, spending a lot of time with ...

... We had to then go through the most ridiculous security before we could enter the actual statue or the base anyway...which is as far as you can go. We all had to stand in a detector that was like an medical scanner that blew air at you! It was freaky, it far more complex than anything in any airport, and was like being in Startrek!! After being given the okay, we were finally allowed to enter! We were then in a huge museum they have built at the bottom of the base. It tells you ...