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Travel Blogs from Old Lyme
An Old Seaport, Famous Pizza, and a Nuclear Sub
... two weeks away, and we would do our real trick-or-treating in Kentucky of all places.
Our first stop was at the Submarine Force Museum to check out the USS Nautilus Memorial. The Nautilus was the World's first nuclear-powered submarine, built in 1954, and decommissioned in the 1980s. The ship was named after Captain Nemo's vessel in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. They had on display a first edition copy of the book that was presented to the captain ...
The Trail of Freedom
... Rhode Island. We stopped at the Pawtucket information centre which is the birthplace of American Industry. Apparently many cotton mills lined the river, but we had to continue along to the capital Providence where the State Capital building sits proudly on the hill. The state is the smallest in the union, but has a very impressive capital and was one of the original 13 states. We took a self-guided tour of the 3 main levels and it reminded us very much of ...
L'actualité américaine
... les embouteillages de la 495 (qui ramène les vacanciers à NY) re-nommée "le plus grand parking du monde". Nous venons d'en réchapper ! Pour échapper aux embouteillages, c'est à 4h du matin, ce matin, que nous avons engagé le grand saut qui doit nous déposer 23 heures plus tard à Tahiti : - 2h20 de voiture dans la nuit pour gagner ...
Things we love
... competes and, one time when I was there, Bruce Springsteen was too, watching his daughter. Horses aside, it is a fantastic opportunity to people watch. Yesterday I noticed twice the usual number of New Yorkers wearing white pants. There were the spectators, in their spotless tight pants-of-conjecture and there were the competitors in their breeches. At least the equestrians had dirt on their pants, and panty lines, so I felt more ...
Vie d'artiste à Long Island
Assez étroite, l'île s'allonge sur 190 km depuis la banlieue de NY au sud jusqu'aux plages infinies du nord. Comme beaucoup d'artistes, Gabriele Roos vit 8 mois de l'année dans un loft à Manhattan et passe les 4 mois d'été dans la partie septentrionale de l'île, à East Hampton, ville qui a accueilli les premiers grands peintres surréalistes ou abstraits ( Jackson ...
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