Rhode Island Travel and Tourism Guide

After a couple hours on the road we arrived at our hotel.  We decided to stay at the Comfort Inn in Middletown, just outside of Newport.  The rates here were cheaper than staying in Newport, which was less than 10 minutes down the road.  We didn't need anything fancy, we wouldn't be spending much time in the hotel anyway!    They had a nice pool right  off the lobby, but being November, none of us thought to bring swimsuits.  There were a couple of rest...

With an earlier start this morning, we went to the visitor center in Newport and bought a pass to visit 5 mansions. We also took the trolley for transportation which ended up being a waste. It was nice for the drive to the 1st mansion but then you had to wait around for what seemed like an eternity to catch it again, so we ended up walking and only saw 3 mansions. The 1st one was the ELMS that was a self guided audio tour. Elms was built in 1901 for a coal baron. This was actually my fav...

     We decided today to take a trip into Newport, RI which is probably one of my favorite New England places. Of course we weren't even out of Milford and we had taken a wrong turn and ended up in Warwick, RI among other places along the way and what should have been a 1 1/2 hour trip turned into much longer, lol. Once again we saw some cute little towns that we wouldn't have seen otherwise. I had been to Newport 2 times before once in the spring/summer of 03 or 04 and fo...

After getting my rental car, I drove to the Roger Williams National Memorial.  I try to visit as many of the national parks as possible; this site took only about fifteen minutes, but it also provided parking as I explored the area.  I walked up to the State House where I started to look around on my own but when I wandered into the library, an older woman offered to give me a tour of the building.  I loved this one-on-one experience.  Helen was very knowledgeable about th...