We started out from Mystic around 9:00am and got on I-95 headed for Salem, Massachusetts. We quickly exited Connecticut and entered Rhode Island. Rhode Island zipped by and in seemingly no time we were approaching Providence. Mona was navigator and while looking at the maps she noticed that...
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Dunes along the Boardwalk. We started the morning just sitting and watching the waves roll in. What a great way to begin our day! We need more days that begin with watching the tide come in! Then we walked the boardwalk doing a little shopping and...
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We started our day just relaxing…sharing stories about Tuscola, pileated woodpeckers and calving glaciers…you know, the normal stuff. At Obama's Table Our first stop of the day was Ben’s Chili Bowl. This place is really just a hole-in-the-wall chili joint, but is famous for its chili and half smokes. ...
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Margaret and I started our day by walking to Lake Accotink and geocaching in the surrounding park. It was Margaret’s first time caching and we found one Earthcache. We finished caching and returned home where we were greeted by the delicious smell of frying bacon. Pete was cooking breakfast. ...
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Our day started with a little Apple excitement. The new iPhone operating system came out and we “had” to download it before we did anything else. Mine took a while, but was successful. Mona’s went fast but was problematic…causing her to deal with problems right up to...
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When we retired we decided that a cool goal for 2012 would be to visit all the 48 contiguous states and to geocache in each one. We started working on this goal in February and have since visited and geocached in all but 13 of...
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Not the best way to start the day! We started our day meeting one ofEau Claire’s finest. He was quite polite and listened to our story about how Ross made us drive on this highway, even though we didn’t want to, just because he (Ross) had designed it....
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“Windshield wipers slapping time, I was holding Mona's hand in mine…” Yep, today was a rain day…over four hours of driving in the rain. But, I’m ahead of myself…now let’s start from the beginning… We started east from Fargo, North Dakota and quickly crossed the Red River into Minnesota. ...
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North Dakota Badlands! Within minutes of leaving our hotel in Montana we were in North Dakota and seeing jagged spiked peaks and striped cliff walls. We were in the Badlands of North Dakota. We took exit 24 to go to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. After...
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