To the Island and Back

After a long day spent in Boston, we got a full night's rest, had breakfast made by Brett family, and then started the Long Road Home. Our plan was to hit to high points, but seeing as how it was dark by the time we got to the one in New Jersey, we gave up on that Conquest. We headed into town to see what Ashfield itself looked like, and although nothing was open on a lazy Saturday, it was still quite enjoyable to see the locals playing on the Frozen Ashfield Lake. We then drove past Springfield, where two other schools I've applied to reside, and went on words to Providence Rhode Island.

We stopped for lunch at Murphy's Irish Pub, a restaurant in downtown Providence that my friend has been working at since graduation from college two years prior. I had an actually seen him in two or three years since the last time he was home for winter break, so bumping into him very briefly as he was preparing sandwiches was quite a pleasure. It is always a euphoric and install Jake feeling when you run into old friends again for the first time in a while. We thanked are very Irish waiter for the delicious home-cooked meal, and then headed for Jeremoth Hill, the highest point in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island was sort of flat and unimpressive for the parts that I saw, and the state High Point was also pretty up there on the scale. This would have history be my 9th State High Point, and all we had to do was drive up a road and then park on the side of it and take a picture with the sign to say we had been to that High Point. So we did just that, and then headed for a Lewis's lunch in New Haven Connecticut. It is a restaurant that I discovered on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives when I was about 16 years old, when I still ate red meat. So of course, I wanted to go see the restaurant that was claims to be the home of the hamburger in America.

Downtown Providence!

When we finally got to the restaurant, parking was quite annoying. The restaurant itself was a very small pop up from 1895, and there were only a few items on the menu. It was my first time eating red meat and nearly three years as well, as they only had regular Burgers instead of veggie burgers. Although it was quite a good meal, it definitely wasn't worth 6:25 American dollars for a single sandwich. But now, more things have been crossed off the bucket list.

Well then drove through Staten Island and Long Island, past the Highpoint of New Jersey, drove New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpike for approximately 230 miles, eventually got home late at night. A successful trip to New England and back in a few days, and a few more states that I have been to as well. We will have to return to Connecticut and Massachusetts in the summer when the roads to the high points are open and actually accessible. New England was a fantastic destination to visit, and I will definitely return some day.