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






































