Why We Love Summer
The girl, not the season. Because she plans things. Like our annual road trip. Check out this email My Sharona, Jean and I received from her yesterday:
Okay ladies. Here's where we need to make some choices:
Dates: Jean, we all decided either of the following weekends work for us, please weigh in so we can ask off work: Nov 3-5 or Nov 10-12. Girls, please check your calendars and vote.
Place: We were thinking Rhode Island might be nice (smallest state prolly means lots of worlds smallest…). Here's a little ditty on some choices. Please review and vote.
Destination: Newport, RI
Length of Drive: 3 ˝ hours
About: This is a port! Which means seafood (Mmm, I'm still on the master cleanse and starving for something non-lemonade). It looks very Cape Cod, but hopefully cheaper. The buildings look old and historic.
Roadside Attractions:
- Mystery Viking tour (Newport)
- Fighting Seabee Statue (North Kingstown)
- World's Largest Rust Collection (Narragansett)
- Florence Nightingale's Nurse Cap (Westerly)
- US Submarine Force Museum (Groton, CT)
- Tiny Stonehedge Replica (Guilford, CT)
- Midnight Mary's Grave (New Haven, CT)
- Tom Thumb Grace (Bridgeport, CT)
- PT Barnum Statue (Bridgeport, CT)
Destination: Providence, RI
Length of Drive: 3 ˝ hours
About: Providence is a college town which might be good for picking up younger guys and taking advantage of them.
Roadside Attractions:
- World's Largest Bug (Providence)
- Tree root that ate Roger Williams (Providence)
- Fighting Seabee Statue (North Kingstown)
- Florence Nightingale's Nurse Cap (Westerly)
- US Submarine Force Museum (Groton, CT)
- Tiny Stonehedge Replica (Guilford, CT)
- Midnight Mary's Grave (New Haven, CT)
- Tom Thumb Grace (Bridgeport, CT)
- PT Barnum Statue (Bridgeport, CT)
Destination: Ocean City, MD
Length of Drive: 4 ˝ hours
About: This is an ocean town, which will most likely be deserted in the cold, it is close to DC on the other side of it. A vacation town in the summer, on the Atlantic Ocean. Perhaps more expensive lodging?
Roadside Attractions:
- Worlds largest martini (Ocean City, MD)
- Worlds largest fish hook (Ocean City, MD)
- Worlds largest mosquito (Church Creek, MD)
- Worlds largest crab (Crisfield, MD)
- World's largest ball of rubber bands (Wilmington, DE)
- Worlds largest skillet (Wilmington, DE)
- Worlds largest doctor's bag (Wilmington, DE)
- Mermen of Delaware (Lewes, DE)
- Big Amish Man (Milford, DE)
- Frightland (St. Georges, DE)
- Frontier Town (Ocean City, MD)
Destination: Annapolis, MD
Length of Drive: 3.75 hours
About: This is a small big town, near DC, a little southern feeling.
Roadside Attractions:
- World's largest ball of rubber bands (Wilmington, DE)
- World's largest skillet, (Wilmington, DE)
- World's largest doctors bag (Wilmington, DE)
- World's largest pencil (Glen Burnie, MD)
- World's largest acorn (Silver Spring, MD)
- Ship restaurant (Canton, MD)
Destination: East Stroudsburg, PA (Poconos)
Length of Drive: 1.5 hours
OR
Destination: Canadensis, PA (Poconos)
Length of Drive: 1.75 hours
OR
Destination: Jim Thorpe, PA (Poconos)
Length of Drive: 2.25 hours
About: One word – spas! Lots of places to stay and nature in the Poconos, only downside is since its not that far, there's less road/less roadside attractions
Roadside Attractions:
- Worlds Largest cup (Pennsburg, PA)
- Pie Woman (Frackville, PA)
- World's largest donut (Yocumtown, PA)
- Jack's Honey Farm (Asbury, NJ)
- Worlds largest incandescent light bulb (Menlo Park, NJ)
- SS Flagship (Union, NJ)
Destination: Washington, DC
Length of Drive: 4 hours
About: Will be more $ and more touristy, but there will be bars!
Roadside Attractions:
- World's largest ball of rubber bands (Wilmington, DE)
- World's largest skillet, (Wilmington, DE)
- World's largest doctors bag (Wilmington, DE)
- World's largest pencil (Glen Burnie, MD)
- World's largest acorn (Silver Spring, MD)
- World's largest typewriter eraser (Washington, DC)
- Ship Restaurant (Canton, MD)
Also, I'm guessing there's going to a binder for the trip as well. With tabs. It's worth noting that I was in charge of restaurants/bars for the last trip, and I scribbled a bunch of crap on the back of a receipt I printed out for something.
