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






































