8/29/2017 Newport, Rhode Island

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

8/29 Tuesday – day drive to:

NEWPORT, Rhode Island (Day Trip)

Sakonnet River Bridge to access Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport to the south.

Walked from Visitor’s Center thru Newport Harbor. and then drove on along 

Just off America’s Cup Avenue, we walked on the 
Thames Street along the Wharf. 
 We entered the front office and headquarters for the:

IYRS:

International Yacht Restoration School. 

The International Yacht Restoration Institute prepares students to enter a global maker & manufacturing workforce.  
The art and science of making, building, restoring & maintaining to gain knowledge using their hands and technology they have the power to build almost anything.  3-acre campus overlooking Newport harbor. 


Internationally recognized 1993 waterfront the campus in the heart of Newport, RI: Restoration Hall, The Brooks Building, and the Aquidneck Mill Building.

Restoration of the Coronet at the IYRS.  Since 1995 on the campus of the IYRS

in Newport, this 1885 sailing vessel is being restored.
Open to public and be visited on the IYRS campus.

First launched in 1885, this elegant sailing yacht is for crossing the ocean in style.  Marble staircase, stained glass doors, mahogany paneled staterooms, and a piano in the main salon.  
131’ schooner by William Townsend & built for Rufus T. Bush by the C. & R Poillon shipyard in Brooklyn.   NY Times wrote: The Coronet placed first in 1887 for a victorious, transatlantic race against the yacht Dauntless.

Luxury powerboats boats of Newport:

Hinckley Luxury Yachts

The Black Pearl at exclusive Bowen’s Wharf.com [for festivals] (anchor of Newport) open-air, mid mall eatery with umbrellas drew a line.  We crossed over a couple of blocks to The Red Parrot.  A large assorted menu with Tim's choice of coconut shrimp wrap and I had lobster quesadilla, of course.

Drive to:

Narragansett Bay to the location of the
Newport Jazz Festival at:
Fort Adams State Park      {Home of the Newport Jazz Festival}
America’s largest coastal fortification.  

Even tho a light rainfall began, we watched the sailboats and their eager crew in the  Harbor.  

Many other vessels:
A large cargo ship filled with automobiles (all enclosed) passed by Narragansett Bay. 

The ferry jetted by at full speed conquering all by time.

Yachts were lined up around shore and one anchored outside of the Harbor.



We walked Newport Harbor seaside city on Aquidneck Island founded in 1639.

www.historicToursofNewport.com

NOTE: Brown University in Providence, RI: One-hour North (Jeff’s friend attending Brown-with interest in Rowing.)









VISITED THE VANDERBILTS

Mansions:  www.Newport.Mansions.org

The Breakers (1895) 44 Ochre Point Avenue most palatial summer residence National Historic Landmark.  Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II.  
Italian Renaissance with 70 rooms and 138,000 sq. ft.

Marble House (1892) 596 Bellevue Avenue Build for Alva Vanderbilt designed with architect modeled after the Petit Trianon at Versailles with 5000,000 cu ft. of marble. National Historic Landmark.

The view from the 

Vanderbilt beach house

8/19/2017 Cape Cod, Massachusetts

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Tim and Linda Bunyan

CAPE COD:
"THE CAPE"
Falmouth, Massachusetts
8/19 - 8/25 Saturday arrived Falmouth, Sippewissett Campground and Cabins. www.sippewissett.com

 RV Park is by private owner, The Tessier family and quite quaint! 

 Outdoor Movie Night was a white sheet supported by two poles and assorted lawn chairs on the grass.   
 We bought Tickets for the Ferry at the Office.  
Laundry room (last load in by 8pm).




Our home on
 Cape Cod

8/20: Hyannis, a village on the
 Cape Cod peninsula: 

We set out on foot for a day

walkabout: Hyannis Harbor.  

Along the beach, we came upon the Kennedy Compound surrounded by fencing and private gate.  It was next to the public beach.  It showed to me that the Kennedys really chose to live close to the American people.

Lunch at local Baxter’s Boathouse on the waterfront.  It was a friendly place.

  We met Jimmy Keys, a colorful comedic entertainer.  He was in town for appearances.  A local gentleman & his wife introduced us.  We spent a couple of hours in this local enjoying the views and the company of patrons.  

We attended the Cape Cod Melody Tent (theatre-in-the-round) www.MelodyTent.org

to see Martina McBride perform.  It was delightful and a small venue with a circular, revolving stage.  Wonderful venue.  Tim had reserved tickets back in June for us to attend.  
Great timing.  Martina's motorhome, she travels much as we do:  With Style !!

Martina McBride at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, MA.

8/21 rested.  Solar Eclipse.  Long shadows, pic of Woodstock.  

"Carousel of Light" a merry-go-round in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.  

This hand-carved carousel, by a man (Lance Shinkle in 1988) that lives here, down the road from the school.  He carved it for his daughter because they liked merry-go-rounds.  It has been saved and cared for by the school.  It functions as a fundraising aspect for the  Mullen-Hall School.   www.carouseloflight.org.    

The nautical theme includes seahorses, mermaids, seashells and a King Neptune chariot.

8/22 Rode bikes and Ferry to Martha’s Vineyard.

  

From our RV Camp, we rode 6 miles on the
"Shining Sea Bike Way" to Woods Hole and the Steamship Authority Ferry dock. 
This finely designed Bike route even had a mechanic shed for repairs along the route.

We took that route to visit Martha’s Vineyard into pastures and groves founded by Methodists at "Oak Bluffs SummerCamp".

We rode bike on the Vineyard along the ocean (location scene from Jaws filmed on this beach) to Edgartown.

We had a 5-star meal at Atlantic Fish & Chophouse, selling Napa wine for $200!  I had to have the Lobster Roll and Tim had Tuna sandwich like none other. 

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 Others arrived by dinghies to dine at the Atlantic.  The harbor dock is filled with dinghies!

Our bike ride continued after lunch passing Captain Morse House, now an elegant 1800 fine vacation house.  Whaling activities, to 1845, was the largest industry for these islanders gone by. 

 Many historic homes and buildings are maintained in this tiny historic center of Edgartown.  
On the horizon is Nantucket Island, another outer island of the Cape.  It is further removed and further spendy.  Purposed that way which keeps much of the tourists outside its realm.

8/23 To Provincetown.  Set out early as planned, 8:00a.m. for us retired folks.  It is a scenic 75 miles drive to the North end of Cape Cod to: Provincetown.  We visited Skip and Pamela Shensky’s daughter (we met from Caribbean Ice in Louisiana).  We met up with Elizabeth where she works at a delightful place called the Canteen with a sandy floor backyard and view and access to the ocean.  Great fish ‘n chips !!

We had a wonderful visit with Elizabeth.  She is here from completing her culinary studies in New York to live and work in the service industry at 22 years old!  

She is not ready and does not yet know to go back home to New Iberia, Louisiana…. a place where young people launch with little incentive to return.  I hope she does go back as she is an angel and young and it is a huge unending world here to live for a youth-adult.

FUN FUN FUN!
Our return route from Provincetown is along the Cape Cod National Seashore and what a definite view and open splendor of a place for the public.  The visitor center is maintained and we are here for a sunset visit.  

This is a place of sanity with miles of open seashore views for a few enjoying the environment.  It is nature at its best:
quiet and calm and serene.  

Tim secured our National Park visitor's stamp.

FINDING THE TITANIC:

8/24 Visit to Woods Hole the start of the Shining Sea Bikeway for our MBL Tour.

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at the Pierce Exhibit Center included a visit to the Marine Resources Center for a look at the marine animals used in research, and we were able to walk the Institutes' campus.  The science laboratory is where the ocean discovery, shark research, and finding the titanic originates.

At Waterfront Park and the MBL is the Pierce Exhibit Center. 

Dockside, the actual research ship: Atlantis was there with ROV: Alvin inside.  This is used to examine ships and ocean, and hydrothermal vents by Robert Ballard.  

ATLANTIS:
The ship that
found Titanic,
by Mr. Robert Ballard

What a wonderful man Mr. Robert Ballard is for being the messenger to the public in the interest of our Earth 
(he says: "Our planet should be called Ocean because our earth is 70% ocean)!                     


The ocean continues to be studied at:
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: WHOI. 

Sandwich, Cape Cod @ Shawnee Crowell State Park

8/25 Friday We relocated our home to the West side of Cape Cod.  We walked along Cape Cod Canal wwwcapecodcanal.us.  


The Visitor’s Center featured ‘GPS' map displays to scan and monitor locations of vessels transiting the canal. 
Canal barges travel from New York to Boston.  Some of the barges carry automobiles and trucks.

We soak in the waterfront, lunch, and fish for cod and flounder, and then we lounged on the front porch in a rocker chair at the Visitor’s Center. HeritageMuseums.org Sandwich, MA

8/28 Monday

 Hy-line Cruise, Canal

 1^st the thing you see to Cape Code is the Canal.  It is a man-made, fully excavated canal built over a hundred years ago.  The project’s financier August Belmont II.   

Many come here:

3 million people per year use it for recreational purposes.

Any kind of boat is allowed.  Phil Donahue & wife Marlo Thomas frequented this place in the ’90s, dined at the Bee-hive Tavern Bob Kind owns
Café Chew.

We enjoyed our 3-hour Sightseeing Cruise through Cape Cod Canal, to the Sandwich Boat Basin.  

Sights: Onset Bay to Wickers Island to the Railroad Bridge, Canal Traffic Control Center in Bourne.  










The Bourne Bridge (to Falmouth) and Scenic Park includes RV campsites along the shore, and the 

Sagamore Bridge is the entrance to Cape Cod Bay.   The Army Core of Engineers took control in 1928.  

2017 Travel Tour: going to discover MAINE !!!