I keep surprising myself with how epic this journey has turned out to be. When I started out I wasn’t really convinced that I’d last 3 months, but I’ve now been travelling for over a year (13 months), and driven nearly 50,000 miles (80,467 km). And when I visited Rhode Island last week I passed another accidental goalpost — I’ve now visited all 48 contiguous United States on this trip! I call it an accidental goalpost, because I certainly didn’t…
Having recently been to a lot of beach town on the coast, and not overly interested in seeing more sand, I at first struggled to find something that I wanted to do in Rhode Island. It seemed to be a lovely state, very green, but with a road system somewhat in need of improvement, and some quite alarming bridges. I discovered that there were a number of very wealthy families that built their summer homes in Newport, however, so I…
I was recently looking back over the map of my journey, and I realized that Rhode Island was the only state in the 48 contiguous United States that I hadn’t visited yet. Clearly I had to rectify that omission and visit RI! On my way there from Cape Cod, I decided to make a quick stop to see Plymouth Rock, since it was almost on my route anyway, and ended up spending most of the day there. Plymouth is a…
Spending time on Cape Cod is a very New England-y kind of thing to do, so since I was in the area I decided to give it a go. I think I’ve been to the Cape before, but don’t honestly remember when, so I must have been rather young. I had great plans to go to the beach, visit Provincetown, and chat to people with funny accents from Boston, but I soon realized that it was just far too popular…
A while ago I volunteered to be a worker at the New England Forest Rally (NEFR) as a way to meet people in the rally scene in the US, and at the same time watch the cars. So on July 19th I showed up as scheduled in the little town of Newry, Maine, and registered at the Sunday River Ski Resort, home base for the NEFR. I was placed as a Stage Marshal on Stage Team 2, covering stages 1,…