Road Trip # 2021-2

Road Trip # 2021-2

RI and CT

In pursuit of local breweries

March 10-12, 2021

Motive: pursuing my goal of a brewery visit in every state.  I needed to visit ones in RI and CT.

Stayed at the Newport Hotel right along the cliff walk.  My room had two bedrooms and I only paid $79/night.  I should have brought guests with me.

I had a very expensive lobster roll and a few cups of various chowders.

My front windshield got damaged by a rock on the way up so I had to spend too much time, on Thursday, getting it fixed. The rock hit me so hard that I am just lucky that the window didn't shatter.

The hotel had a lovely hot tub which I had all to myself.

I went in search of the Breaker Mansion which was much larger than I imagines.  When I was in RI in 1973, my dad and I went in search of this place but couldn't get near it because the filming of the Great Gatsby was still going on.

The weather was beautiful but windy. So it wasn't really beach lounging weather.

Newport is one big, quaint outdoor shopping mall.

Coddington Brewery- RI- I did not like this place one bit.  I could hardly wait to finish my medicare beers and get out of there.

Newport Craft Brewery- RI- this place had good beers and i bought one of their beer glasses because "pour judgment" is printed on it.  And I loved this play on words.

Stony Creek Brewey- CT- I liked the beers, the food and the service.

I stopped in Mystic, CT and just like Newport, it is just one high end retail store after another.