Pre-trip Day 1. 12/28/16
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Pre-trip Day 2 6/10/17
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Stamford to Southport. HOT.
Heading out
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Heading to Southport station... will pick up where we left off!
Packed up.
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
Sights
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 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 wrongBaca lagi
Bridgeport park
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Also in Bridgeport, a really nice park/playground/rest stop.
Today's highlight: GoKarts.
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Southport to Milford
22 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 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. GoKartsBaca lagi
Back on Rt 1
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 startBaca lagi
Is it too early for milkshakes?
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
???
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Ok, what IS that???
A clearer shot
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The Cushing Exhibit
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
At Yale Medical Library
Brains in jars.
In line.
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
No sidewalk
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Most of the route has had nice sidewalks so far. This stretch, not so much.
Circle Lanes, East Haven
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Winding up day 2
23 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 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 ConnecticutBaca lagi
Red roof?
24 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌧 23 °C
The roof on the sign is white. The roof on the building is brown. Poor naming?
Farm country
24 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Today is almost all green. Farms and marshes. Farm stand strawberries.
Day 3. Branford to Clinton
24 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 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 (PlanetBaca lagi
Good morning!
25 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Podcast
25 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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,Baca lagi
Thai lunch
25 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
With surprisingly delicious Thai desserts.
Clinton to Old Saybrook
25 Jun 2017, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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.Baca lagi






































