Before saying goodbye to Providence, we handled the least glamorous task of any family trip: draining Ariela of a truly heroic quantity of boogers, since she’d been fighting a nasty cold for most of the journey. Once that unpleasant business was done, we drove around town one more time to catch the sights we hadn’t…
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The Mansions of Newport
Today’s plan was Newport, Rhode Island, the town famous for its jaw-dropping Gilded Age mansions and its genuinely cute downtown. It delivered on both fronts, more or less. Newport is also the location for the U.S Navy Naval Station, which is home of the home to the Naval War College. We saw many military people…