Today was a much more relaxed day, and everyone enjoyed that. The cities have been good but we need a break. Unlike most days when we drive to a place and then spend a lot of time there, today we drove a bit and stopped. Then we drove a bit more and stopped again. And so on. We drove about five hours total, so we didn’t have a lot of time to explore, but we enjoyed what we did.
We started in Connecticut (after an evening drive last night from NYC to a hotel on the “other side” of Monday morning traffic) and decided we ‘d first swing by Yale. They have campus tours but we opted to spend less time and just drive around the old buildings. I wanted to see the campus but I want to be careful not to exalt it too much in the eyes of the children. The professors here may be brilliant but most of them are no less blind than those at the local community college.
The big stop of the day was in Rhode Island for the famous Newport Cliff Walk. That was a fun trek, with the ocean on one side and some impressive mansions on the other. Nearly all of my photos from today were of this walk.
Cliff walk, Newport, Rhode Island
From here we drove into Massachusetts and out to Cape Cod. We arrived at our hotel (high price, low quality) early and decided to drove out to the tip of the cape and find dinner along the way. We found a nice beach for the kids to peer out into the waters where the Mayflower first arrived.
Herring Cove Beach, Cape Cod
We were too late to climb the tower in Provincetown, so we headed back looking for a fish place to eat at. One that stood out to us had a long line out the door when we passed it earlier. We figured that that’s the best advertisement but were surprised that when returned (about three hours later), the line was still out the door. Everyone had their fill of shrimp, oysters, scallops, and cod (and for some, that “fill” was less than others). This will probably be the most memorable meal of the trip.
Fish dinner on Cape Cod