Pre-trip Day 1. 12/28/16
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Pre-trip Day 2 6/10/17
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Stamford to Southport. HOT.
Heading out
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Heading to Southport station... will pick up where we left off!
Packed up.
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
Sights
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
1) turns out you can rent a sauna... delivered to you. Not sure why you would want to.
2) Lots of abandoned factory buildings, and lots of barbed wire in parts of Bridgeport.
3) captions in the wrongLeggi altro
Bridgeport park
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Also in Bridgeport, a really nice park/playground/rest stop.
Today's highlight: GoKarts.
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Southport to Milford
22 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Fantastic first day. Hot but bearable, and only one incident... Nate walked straight into a pole while admiring one of those big blowy guy things that they use to advertise at used car shops. GoKartsLeggi altro
Back on Rt 1
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
This part of Rt 1 is a bit of a wasteland. All big box stores and fast.food. Sun is being tamed by some hazy clouds, though, and there's sidewalk. We listened to the NYT podcast "The Daily" to startLeggi altro
Is it too early for milkshakes?
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
???
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Ok, what IS that???
A clearer shot
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The Cushing Exhibit
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
At Yale Medical Library
Brains in jars.
In line.
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
No sidewalk
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Most of the route has had nice sidewalks so far. This stretch, not so much.
Circle Lanes, East Haven
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Winding up day 2
23 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
When we walked from Stamford to Southport, we saw dozens of establishments advertising eyelash extensions. Today, the theme was tattoo parlors. Also, we've ascertained that white men in ConnecticutLeggi altro
Red roof?
24 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ 🌧 23 °C
The roof on the sign is white. The roof on the building is brown. Poor naming?
Farm country
24 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Today is almost all green. Farms and marshes. Farm stand strawberries.
Day 3. Branford to Clinton
24 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
And we're in. Not as much to do on the route today, but the scenery was really pretty. Lots of colonial era buildings in the cute little towns we went through. Listened to a few podcasts (PlanetLeggi altro
Good morning!
25 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Nate's sleeping, and I'm drinking coffee in bed catching up on news and starting to plan our day. Nice start to the day!
Breakfast spot
25 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Podcast
25 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Useful item for long walks: earbud splitter. We're particularly liking Malcolm Gladwell's podcast, "Revisionist History." Sun hats are also very useful.
We do look a bit incongruous with our hats,Leggi altro
Thai lunch
25 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
With surprisingly delicious Thai desserts.
Clinton to Old Saybrook
25 giugno 2017, Stati Uniti ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Short day today to rest a bit. More marshland, pretty scenery, and not a whole lot else. We did see a whole bunch of three wheeled, open topped cars (? ATV's ? Grown up GoKarts?) today and yesterday.Leggi altro






































