How The Other Half Lives!

Above are photos of privately owned mansions that we saw along Bellevue Avenue and Ocean Drive in Newport, RI. Newport is our new favorite place-East Coast. We don't know what we will see on Cape Cod, but we highly recommend a visit to Newport, if you are looking for a long weekend getaway. We wished that we would have stayed longer but the weather just wasn't with us.

We are now in Plymouth, MA. We moved here yesterday and fortunately had good weather for driving and re-setting up camp. We used the remainder of the day for camper maintenance, so there wasn't much to write about.

As we crossed the border from Rhode Island to Massachusetts, we immediately noticed a change in the air. It is like living with aromatherapy and is good. Massachusetts may be the home of the pinewood forest of song. I know it is odd to write about aroma, but we are both experiencing this phenomenon. If it weren't so humid, we would love to sleep with the windows open, so we could be surrounded by the delightful odor. We have been riding around with the windows open just to breath in the fresh air.

Also, we must be in a valley in the pinewood forest because Internet access is very slow or at times non-existent. Because we are in the woods, we cannot use our satellite dish and the campground does not offer cable so we are limited to local TV, which at best is snowy. We will get a lot of reading done this way.

This morning we woke to rain, so we decided to go to see Superman Returns, a great summer movie. I didn't know how I would feel about a new actor playing Superman, but the movie just sucked me in and I am in love with this new guy, Brandon Routh. Kate Bosworth makes a great Lois Lane, but I can't believe that she can resist Clark, although James Marsden is adorable, too. If you like action and romance, this is a movie for you. The franchise survives!

What made the experience even better is that the theater was in a shopping mall and one of the restaurants was Uno's so we had a Chicago Special before we went to the movie. Yummy!