First Time in Newport — A Weekend of Highlights

The sea draws me in like nectar to a bee, like a shot of whiskey to a merchant marine, like … home to the homesick.  We all have places that we’d like to visit and Newport, Rhode Island is one of those for me.  Maybe it’s the romance of the seafarer life.  Maybe it’s that I just like to explore new places.  I was just hoping that coming here wasn’t going be a big letdown.
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Life’s an experience. Live It!

People travel for a variety of reasons — relaxation, education, adventure, work (yuck!) to name a few.  I always thought that I would travel when I got old and retired.  Wrong.  I once met an 80-year old British woman at the top of the Acropolis.  Who’s to say that I’ll be physically able to do that?  Will you?  I travel because I have a burning desire to experience new things, see new places, eat new foods.  I travel because the sea turtles of Akumal, the Rock of Gibraltar, the vineyards of Tuscany, the castles of Germany won’t come to me.  I travel because life’s too short not to.
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