New England ~ Maine, driving through NH, VT, MA, CT to Newport, RI ~ Wednesday

Wednesday morning started out at approximately 5 am. Jason and I realized that we had never seen the sun rise and since we were on the East Coast it was the time to take mother nature up on that offer. We were less than 100 yards from the beach, so it was easy to get there. Funny thing was that I actually brought a flash light..I'm so used to watching the sun set and needing a flash light that I just didn't think it through!

We were the only ones on the beach...except for a nice older gentleman who was out for his morning walk with his metal detector. His wife, he told us, was cleaning up the playground. Precious. He offered to take some pictures of us, but other than that let us enjoy the sunset. It was fun waiting to see when the ball of sun would actually come over the horizon...

And it was worth the 5am wake up!!!

After the sun rise...we went back to bed! We had planned on walking around the town and having breakfast but after our night the night before {think dirty hotel room bed} we decided a snooze was in order.

We had also planned to make some stops in New Hampshire and Vermont but that didn't work out, because of the hurricane. There was some extreme flooding in the area.

On our way out of town we stopped at a light house, because you can't go to Maine and not see a light house!!

Nubble light house is on an island and one of the most photographed in Maine.

Then we were on our way...to New Hampshire, Vermont, through Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. It was a lot of driving and since we got about a 5 hour late start...it got dark part way through our trip. We also had to take a 7 miles - 2.5 hour DETOUR in Vermont due to the flooding...

NH

VT

The muddy {because of flooding} parking lot

On our Vermont DETOUR...so frustrating. We were rocking out to some rap at this point...to starve off boredom.

Heading back into MA...just driving through

I promise this one says Welcome to Connecticut!!

We totally missed the Rhode Island sign...but we stayed the night there - more on the in the next post.