The Island
Travel Blogs from East Lyme
An Old Seaport, Famous Pizza, and a Nuclear Sub
... dwarves. Like most submarines, the spaces and quarters are really tiny, to utilize space most efficiently. I would have gone crazy trying to live in the ship, being somewhat claustrophobic.
The next day, we took a drive and stroll through Mystic, which reminded me a lot of Bar Harbor - a lot of little boutiques and quaint shops. Not really my cup of tea, but I can see the appeal for some. One landmark I did recognize was Mystic Pizza, a pizza shop made famous in ...
1st Full Day in USA
... we have to use an intercom to communicate across the front seats. That is unless we are having a full blazing row, more about that later....
We had planned a starting point for our circular leaf trip, not from Boston but from a place called Mystic (Yes you may know it from the film Mystic Pizza). It was a beautiful starting place, an archetypal New England town.
From here we headed ...
The Trail of Freedom
... in at the Providence Place for a smoothie before leaving Rhode Island for Connecticut. This is the fourth time on our trip that we have crossed through 3 states in one day: Washington, Idaho and Montana, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan plus Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Not a bad feat really! We set up camp down at the Rocky Neck State Park in Niantic which is the next down over from the National Submarine Museum which might be worth checking out ...
L'actualité américaine
Eh oui à l'heure d'internet il nous faut parfois plusieurs jours pour poster une page de blog, et il y en a certains qui s'impatientent. Je piaffe un peu moi-même de ne pouvoir le faire plus aisément et devoir chercher la-terrasse-de-café-branchée- wifi du coin. Nous avons vécu ces 4 jours au rythme des locaux. Entre les deux temps forts des conventions, ...
Vie d'artiste à Long Island
... chênes peuplée d'animaux, à quelques centaines de mètres d'une marina naturelle, elle résume assez bien la philosophie de cette partie de l'île qui se veut respectueuse de l'intimité de chacun et de l'environnement de tous : maisons sans clôture mais cachées par la végétation ou le relief, protection des plages et des dunes, utilisation des produits ...