Daily Archives: August 1, 2009
Old Saybrook…
Today is our last full day in Connecticut.
After lunch at Pat’s Kountry Kitchen, voted ‘Best Family Style Restaurant in Connecticut”,
Pats Kountry Kitchen
we headed out to drive around the Old Saybrook seaport area. It’s a very picturesque area, much of it dating from the 1700’s.
There’s a lot of history here as the Old Boston Post Road runs right through the town. This would have been the route many of the Founding Fathers used to travel between New York and Boston.
I mentioned before how picturesque this area is. But I don’t have any pictures to show for it. We drove what’s know as the Scenic Loop, but there’s no place to stop and take pictures. The road is a narrow two lane road with no place to pull over and no stopping allowed.
So you’ll just have to imagine the shot of the swans feeding in the lake, the lighthouses on the point, the lovely view of the marina, etc.
Aren’t they just beautiful?
We had originally planned to head north to the Springfield/Chicopee, MA area to visit a high school friend of hers. Jan graduated from Chicopee Falls Comprehensive High School so she’s looking forward to visit old friends and old haunts.
But her friend, Joan, has had a death in the family, so we will head over to Cape Cod for a few days and then up to see Joan next week end.
The Cape Cod area is an old haunt for both of us as we lived in West Falmouth, MA in 1971 while I was working for the Dept. of Defense at Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod.
The park we’re staying at here in the Clinton, CT area is called Riverdale Farm Campground. It’s a nice place, but the sites are kind of small and we’re really jammed in together.
Riverdale Farm Campground 1
Riverdale Farm Campground 2
We have a 140 mile trip tomorrow, which should take us about 3 hours. But it might be longer due to the traffic we will encounter.
We’ll see. More tomorrow.
