Day 49 - The end is nigh....

Our final day on the road was supposed to be a casual one with a couple of stops in Rhode Island and northern Connecticut on the way home - However fate led us to an early end to our tour. Unfortunately I picked up a stomach virus over the past couple of days and I was in no shape for sightseeing. So it was straight back to Greenwich for the both of us - with a few odd stops on the way that is ;o)

So that's it! 49 days, 15,000ish miles, a hell of a lot of bad food and many, many amazing sights.

Thank you for reading the blog and thanks to my wonderful wife for making this adventure all the more amazing as I get to share it with her for the rest of our lives - also we get to bore everyone else with the stories as a couple so watch out!!

Bon voyage all.

Day 48 - Last night on tour....

After getting up at the crack of dawn, falling back asleep and then getting back up again we jumped in the car, stopped at the now abundant Dunkin Donuts for brekki and then headed into Maine towards Portland. We got there mid-day and found a town that was a bit short of sights to see. We walked around for a while trying to find something to do but fell well short. The only interesting things we could take a snap of were some odd looking logs sticking out the harbour - and a rusty old globe on the waterfront....

So that was Portland done! We then made the short 2 hour drive into Boston, Massachusetts. This had a lot more to offer! We parked near the Boston common and took a stroll around there first....

Boston has some great buildings, a mixture of new business and old culture all mixed together which is pretty cool....

'Faneuil Hall' - The Boston market place and meeting hall since 1742 and site of many famous speeches by Samuel Adams and James Otis....

The Quincy Market - shed loads of food on offer - yummy!

and best of all - a visit to the famous 'Cheers' bar....

We left Boston and drove towards Newport, Rhode Island stopping about an hour outside. This will probably, maybe, possibly be our last night out on the road - so for the last time - Good night.

Day 47 - Dream job!

We left New Hampshire and drove North into Vermont and towards Waterbury. This is the home of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream - so of course we had to stop in and take a look ;o). They offer a tour of the factory which we obliged and went on - unfortunately they do not allow photography on the tour so no pics of their ice cream making were to be had - still we can tell you we sampled plenty of ice cream for everyone!



This was the tour guide - she looked bonkers but was actually very, very boring! We have no idea how you can make a tour that even kids would love so dull - but she achieved that easily. Luckily the tour was only 15mins of so long so we spent most of the time in the over-priced gift shop. But who cares - they had free ice-cream samples!!!



Some history and flavours stuck to the wall....



Vermont is also famous for its cheese, with the strap line of a place called 'Cabot' supposedly selling "the best Cheddar cheese in the world". America is famous for many things, but its quality of cheese, is, to this point most definitely not one of them! It would be fair to say that I have not had a cheese thus far in the states that was at all tasty or sometimes even edible - that was until now! I am not sure how they did it but the cheese in Cabot was probably the nicest cheese I have ever tasted - and I have eaten a lot of cheese in my life! We sampled many types they had on offer but eventually decided on some original strong Cheddar, hot habanero (very hot!) and some Tuscan (which had a smokey taste to it).

After sampling Ice-cream and then Cheese all afternoon out stomachs were feeling a little delicate - so we opted to call it a night and stopped off about 3 hours short of entering Maine. Tomorrow we hope to make it into Portland Maine and then head downwards to Boston, Massachusetts. We are almost home!

Day 46 - Smores....

After leaving the outskirts of Niagara we took the 6+ hour drive to Nashua, New Hampshire to meet up with Stephs old college buddy Amy. We talked about the excitement of dealing with baby poo all day (they are 2 kids strong) and then went out for a nice Mexican followed by an evening sitting around the fire in Amy and Billy's garden - eating golden brown marsh mellows and creating smores over the flames, plus a couple of beers of course! It was a lovely evening and a great not to stay on a motel for a night! Cheers Amy and Billy!