G'Day Mates!
Today I write from a friends house in Providence, Rhode Island. Rhode Island = pretty groovy. It's teeny weeny, fun-size and cute enough to try and sneak home in your front pocket if you want my travel critic opinion :)
Yesterday I toured and putzed around Newport, Rhode Island; home to beautiful mansions on Ocean Drive, lovely beaches and historic Fort Adams to name a few of its beauties. :) If you took the nice shops of Mequon and Cedarburg, added it to Port Washington's lakeside downtown, added 20,000 people and mixed the classic, rich and traditional east coast culture, you have Newport. Go vacation there. Bring a sand castle kit, all your nautical clothes and a big appetite for fresh seafood and local microbrewed beer and you will have a great time.
It's funny how being a Packers fan can come in handy no matter where you are in the World. In Ireland I sat down in front of someone wearing a Packer hat and also a Wisconsin native. This week I was sitting in an awesome Irish bar (next to the Tennis Hall of Fame, I forget the name) watching the Packers beat up on the Vikings with a friend and had a great time chatting with locals who also liked the Packers and Wisconsin. Right now is a great time to be a cheesehead!
Before chillin' like a villian streets away from the ocean and Brown University, I worked an expo horse geeks call the Equine Affair. It's an annual yeehaw horsey shopping spree held in Springfield, Mass. The East has alot of money, alot of english riders and enough strip clubs and seedy men to go around the world twice (ok compared to the midwest it does, I might be a little facetious when I say seedy men and strip clubs but there were alot by us!). What a cool place to travel to though, the area is so old and historic! It was crazy seeing all the tree damage along our scenic drive to our hotel every day, the houses were so old and rustic I wanted to take the view and put it in a snowglobe.
Before the East Coast I spent a month in Columbus, Ohio, home to the American Quarter Horse Congress. If you ever get the chance to go, do it! My favorite week is probably the first one with the reiners. With plenty of cowboy butts in wranglers and French speaking Canadians, you will be highly amused both during the day and at night. Quarter horse people like to work hard and play hard, making the Corral, a round bar located on the showgrounds a common stomping ground. Its amazing how much horse people vary, horse lovers come in all shapes and income sizes...
Tomorrow I'm off to Mt. Vernon, Ohio and then to Chicago where another small expo will be held right before I head toThanksgiving in Wisconsin. This year without my Granny K is going to make for a strange holiday. Its wierd how you move on after death but you think and miss someone daily, more so then what I miss my little redheaded dog right now. My friend here has a silly slightly neurotic cat that I'm trying to love in replace of him but its not working...Maybe I'll teach it to fetch....
Hope all is well and groovy in your neck of the woods,
Kate
Today I write from a friends house in Providence, Rhode Island. Rhode Island = pretty groovy. It's teeny weeny, fun-size and cute enough to try and sneak home in your front pocket if you want my travel critic opinion :)
Yesterday I toured and putzed around Newport, Rhode Island; home to beautiful mansions on Ocean Drive, lovely beaches and historic Fort Adams to name a few of its beauties. :) If you took the nice shops of Mequon and Cedarburg, added it to Port Washington's lakeside downtown, added 20,000 people and mixed the classic, rich and traditional east coast culture, you have Newport. Go vacation there. Bring a sand castle kit, all your nautical clothes and a big appetite for fresh seafood and local microbrewed beer and you will have a great time.
It's funny how being a Packers fan can come in handy no matter where you are in the World. In Ireland I sat down in front of someone wearing a Packer hat and also a Wisconsin native. This week I was sitting in an awesome Irish bar (next to the Tennis Hall of Fame, I forget the name) watching the Packers beat up on the Vikings with a friend and had a great time chatting with locals who also liked the Packers and Wisconsin. Right now is a great time to be a cheesehead!
Before chillin' like a villian streets away from the ocean and Brown University, I worked an expo horse geeks call the Equine Affair. It's an annual yeehaw horsey shopping spree held in Springfield, Mass. The East has alot of money, alot of english riders and enough strip clubs and seedy men to go around the world twice (ok compared to the midwest it does, I might be a little facetious when I say seedy men and strip clubs but there were alot by us!). What a cool place to travel to though, the area is so old and historic! It was crazy seeing all the tree damage along our scenic drive to our hotel every day, the houses were so old and rustic I wanted to take the view and put it in a snowglobe.
Before the East Coast I spent a month in Columbus, Ohio, home to the American Quarter Horse Congress. If you ever get the chance to go, do it! My favorite week is probably the first one with the reiners. With plenty of cowboy butts in wranglers and French speaking Canadians, you will be highly amused both during the day and at night. Quarter horse people like to work hard and play hard, making the Corral, a round bar located on the showgrounds a common stomping ground. Its amazing how much horse people vary, horse lovers come in all shapes and income sizes...
Tomorrow I'm off to Mt. Vernon, Ohio and then to Chicago where another small expo will be held right before I head toThanksgiving in Wisconsin. This year without my Granny K is going to make for a strange holiday. Its wierd how you move on after death but you think and miss someone daily, more so then what I miss my little redheaded dog right now. My friend here has a silly slightly neurotic cat that I'm trying to love in replace of him but its not working...Maybe I'll teach it to fetch....
Hope all is well and groovy in your neck of the woods,
Kate
