Day 45 Meredith NH to Narragansett RI
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Cold and drizzly this morning…surprise! No wonder everything is so green this year.
We left the mosquito coast…um, I mean Meredith a little after nine o’clock, gassed up and headed to I93 south. Years ago, this trip would take hours on the state road. The state roads wound through the forest, farms, villages and cities. Now, it’s a straight shot to Massachusetts. Tom Tom wanted us to go straight through Boston…obviously Tom Tom has never been to Boston! We have, so we opted to drive I495 around the whole mess of insane traffic. We laughed at how this stretch of highway through the state used to see soooooooo long when we lived in RI. As I mentioned earlier posts, in RI anything over 15 miles is a journey.
The weather continued with heavy cloud cover and drizzle, we didn’t actually see the sun all day. I guess it saves wear and tear on our sunglasses.
Jim thought he’d drive I95 through Pawtucket, Providence, Cranston because ‘he hadn’t done that in so long’…until he came to his senses with the traffic increasing. Thankfully (for my nerves) we took I295 around the metropolitan area.
There is a regional food here in RI, that is very specialized, ‘New York System Hot Wieners. One of those food that, if you didn’t grow up eating them, you probably wouldn’t even like them. Basically a hot wiener is a hot dog with a difference. It comes on a steamed bun, covered with a Coney Island type meat sauce (there lies the ‘secret) covered with onions, mustard and some of the time, celery salt. They were sold in working class neighborhoods in diners. You get your food fast. When a person only gets 30 minutes for lunch, you better get their food to them fast. We can be away for years and when we walk into one of these places, it’s like nothing ever changed.
Narragansett was our next stop to the Fisherman’s Memorial State Park. We’ve got a very nice spot….a little slant, it took a bit, but we’ve leveled. The longer we’re on the highway, the harder it is to ‘feel’ which way is perfectly level, the bubble level things don’t always agree with what we feel. We took a bike ride around the campground…I was too cold, so it wasn’t a long ride. There are so many rabbits here that I was afraid I would run over one. It makes walking the dogs harder too, Brandy aka Little Dummy, tries to catch them and takes off after them. The entire length of leash zips out before I even know what’s going on. She looks smart for 20 feet anyway!
Later we went for my ‘absolutely must have’ steamers (steamed clams) and a boiled lobster. YUMMO!
We switched our TV with our converter box over and we are amazed at the great reception and picture ! That’s a good thing, because with the weather forecast, we may not be doing much else!
Tomorrow, meeting up with friends and relatives, and dodging the raindrops.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Cold and drizzly this morning…surprise! No wonder everything is so green this year.
We left the mosquito coast…um, I mean Meredith a little after nine o’clock, gassed up and headed to I93 south. Years ago, this trip would take hours on the state road. The state roads wound through the forest, farms, villages and cities. Now, it’s a straight shot to Massachusetts. Tom Tom wanted us to go straight through Boston…obviously Tom Tom has never been to Boston! We have, so we opted to drive I495 around the whole mess of insane traffic. We laughed at how this stretch of highway through the state used to see soooooooo long when we lived in RI. As I mentioned earlier posts, in RI anything over 15 miles is a journey.
The weather continued with heavy cloud cover and drizzle, we didn’t actually see the sun all day. I guess it saves wear and tear on our sunglasses.
Jim thought he’d drive I95 through Pawtucket, Providence, Cranston because ‘he hadn’t done that in so long’…until he came to his senses with the traffic increasing. Thankfully (for my nerves) we took I295 around the metropolitan area.
There is a regional food here in RI, that is very specialized, ‘New York System Hot Wieners. One of those food that, if you didn’t grow up eating them, you probably wouldn’t even like them. Basically a hot wiener is a hot dog with a difference. It comes on a steamed bun, covered with a Coney Island type meat sauce (there lies the ‘secret) covered with onions, mustard and some of the time, celery salt. They were sold in working class neighborhoods in diners. You get your food fast. When a person only gets 30 minutes for lunch, you better get their food to them fast. We can be away for years and when we walk into one of these places, it’s like nothing ever changed.
Narragansett was our next stop to the Fisherman’s Memorial State Park. We’ve got a very nice spot….a little slant, it took a bit, but we’ve leveled. The longer we’re on the highway, the harder it is to ‘feel’ which way is perfectly level, the bubble level things don’t always agree with what we feel. We took a bike ride around the campground…I was too cold, so it wasn’t a long ride. There are so many rabbits here that I was afraid I would run over one. It makes walking the dogs harder too, Brandy aka Little Dummy, tries to catch them and takes off after them. The entire length of leash zips out before I even know what’s going on. She looks smart for 20 feet anyway!
Later we went for my ‘absolutely must have’ steamers (steamed clams) and a boiled lobster. YUMMO!
We switched our TV with our converter box over and we are amazed at the great reception and picture ! That’s a good thing, because with the weather forecast, we may not be doing much else!
Tomorrow, meeting up with friends and relatives, and dodging the raindrops.
Okay Please explain...YUMMO??? Where is that from?
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