MANIERRE Elizabeth (N.J.) Girl Is Married to New Yorker at Thornfield, Cazenovia, N.Y. WOMAN LEAPS FROM PLANE Miss La Balter Drops 500 Feet Before Opening Parachute.HINKLER, FLIER, HERE ON WAY TO AUSTRALIA Pilot Arrives on the Tuscania- Ship Delayed by Hurricane, Five Hurt.LIPTON STAYS ABOARD ERIN Vanderbilt Returns After Inspecting Sails for America's Cup Defender at City Island. FOG AGAIN KEEPS CUP YACHTS IDLE Enterprise and Shamrock V Are Prevented From Taking Trial Spins Off Newport.Little Neck Woman to Defend Her Land Claim in Court. DON LEON, FAVORITE, FOURTH Rusty Finishes Third After a Good Start, Four Lengths Back of Schooner. SISKIN TRIUMPHS AT LINCOLN FIELDS Nevada Stock Farm's Entry Takes Joliet Handicap by Spurt in Stretch.Philadelphia Woman Stricken With Heart Attack at Cemetery. IRIGOYEN REMAINS AT HOME Stays Away From Office for Third Successive Day-Gold Peso Falls to 126 for $100, Low Mark. REPORT 2 MINISTERS OUT IN ARGENTINA War Department Head Believed One as Officers Confer With Interior Chief.SWIM ASHORE HAULING FIVE WOMEN T0 SAFETY New Yorker and Friend Tug Dory in Darkness From Damaged Sloop Off Scituate, Mass.ALLEN Berlin Newspapers Praise His Large Sympathy With Defeated Reich. I enjoyed saying, “Frances, meet Francis!” (Frank, you know. Would we run into Frances again in Newport? You’ll have to wait and find out! So cute that Frances. She told us which nights she goes there and sits at the bar, and that we should ask for “Uncle Joe” when we go. (I know – shocking.) She is a Rhode Island native and she gave us a great tip on a good restaurant in Newport. She was an endearing soul sitting by herself, and we struck up a conversation. The place was packed, but two seats at the bar opened – our preferred seating, anyway. I don’t know why it is called that – there is nothing about the place that resembles a tea room. We stuck our heads in the Olympia Tea Room Restaurant. We went back in that evening looking for dinner in a pretty crowded town. Thought it was fitting that we were in Watch Hill the day that judgement came in. I wanted to congratulate her on her $1 court settlement victory over the _ (fill in the blank) who groped her. I knocked on Taylor’s door, but no one was home. It was an interesting place to visit… a busy, upscale shore town – but very scenic and a nice stopover for a night. Okay, side note done.Īnyway, back to Watch Hill. Some of it you have to laugh at, but really people, JUST CHILL! People squawk at each other a bit in other locales, but not quite so, uhm, colorfully as this section of New England. And even FRANK commented on it… and he worked in the fishing and casino businesses in NJ, so that’s coming from him, if you know what I mean. Someone finally broke in and said, “There is no civility in New England any more.” The Coast Guard kept coming on reminding folks that it is a hailing and emergency channel only… but they don’t know who’s on the radio or where they are, so nothing they can do to enforce that – even the guy that called another guy a “homo.” No lie. We heard an unbelievable exchange of name calling between a couple of captains – all on VHF 16, the emergency and hailing channel. It got progressively worse in NY and in CT – and approaching RI, it’s really a doozie. It starts in NJ – that’s where we heard the first F-bomb dropped at a fellow boater. Side note: one of the things that really does change as you go north… VHF radio etiquette. I said, “So, we crossed into Rhode Island today?” Frank said, “Guess so!” You know, Garmin Blue Charts doesn’t really show state lines! It took us half of the afternoon to figure that out… it was when I saw a t-shirt in a shop that said “Watch Hill, Rhode Island.” Duh. Although it was only three miles, somewhere in that short route we had crossed into Rhode Island. We mosied the 3 miles up a very winding and skinny inlet to Watch Hill. Hey, if Taylor Swift bought a house there, then it had to be okay, right? Maybe we’d stop in and say hi to her during our stay. What was the big hurry? So in the morning, we changed our plans and decided to head right around the corner to Watch Hill and see what it was all about. We said our goodbyes and got back on the boat thinking we would head to Newport the next day… but we have been in this area before and not spent much time. Frank saw this fishing boat and got very excited – apparently an Old Cape May girl!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |