Friday- 9-11. I hope for Osama's sake there really is a Hell.
a.m. weather much better than yesterday. Misting rain which stopped by 9. Rest of the day was sunny in the 70's. Can't ask for more. Drove just a few miles to Mystic Seaport. My 4th visit, S's 3rd; neither of us has been there in a long while, though. Crowd was small and some evidence that the Seaport is quieting down their operation for the end of the season now that the summer-job college kids are gone, except for those in the still-active Williams Mystic Program. Was good to see the newly-restored Charles W. Morgan which took a cruise around New England last year, for the first time since the 1920's. Also enjoyed revisiting many of the same exhibits and boats we'd remembered. The small boat exhibit features catboats right now, and they did have some beauties. We took a harbor cruise in a launch operated by the Seaport, and the captain's commentary included the info that in an adjacent warehouse not open to the public they have about 500 boats stored. Imagine that- wouldn't it be wonderful to crawl through there? Mystic has a new exhibit hall with the theme of whaling. Very good stuff, but no match for New Bedford. The blacksmith in charge of the shipsmith exhibit doesn't remember son Peter, but he started there in 1990 which I think was after Pete was there. Several grand banks dories at dockside, and I would have enjoyed taking one out for a row but didn't have time or initiative to ask.
Saturday, 9-12 a travel day. We followed I-95 along the Conn. shore to New York, across the George Washington Bridge, and down the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Expressway to the campground we'd spotted online near Tom's River. Traffic wasn't too bad, and the driving was not exactly stressful, but the highways are no longer familiar to me so I had to stay alert, even with the help of GPS. Tolls on the NJ and Garden State were very high with the trailer, about $30. Consolation prize: we filled up the gas tank at Bayville, NJ for $1.94.9 per gallon, cheapest gas in many years. Worldwide economy must be really slow. Or maybe it's the supply effect of fracking in North Dakota. Arived at campground just in time for the rain and with just enough time to change clothes and go a few miles to a vigil Mass. Good to have that done.
Sign seen in a construction zone on the New Jersey Turnpike: "Put Bodies Down Before Moving". A sure sign of overregulation, if there ever was one. Imagine: Hey Vinney- Solly got a ticket on the Turnpike. Fix it, will ya? What they get him for? Throwing a stiff out of a moving vehicle. Ah- fagetaboudit.
The campground is near a good stream for canoeing. If the weather in the morning is better we may pay for a lift upstream to a put-in point and paddle back here. Not far to go tomorrow, just to Cape May. Next day we'll take the ferry across Delaware Bay and head further down the coast. Stay tuned.
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