Sept 14th to 16th - CT & RI

Sept 14th - Sun - Ledyard, Connecticut
We were going to stay overnight in Mass. but decided to drive on to CT as Terry & Judy have to be in Nogales AZ near the end of October and need to get moving. Some eastern states are so small that you can drive through 2 or 3 in a reasonably short driving day. We traveled about ¾ of the length of Vermont, through Massachusetts and to the south eastern corner of Connecticut in about 4 ½ hours driving time. More very pretty countryside once the rain & fog lifted enough for a good view. I didn’t pay too much attention to a lot of it as I caught up on a couple of phone calls to (sister) Marg and (cousin) Pat.
We ended up at the largest casino in North America - Foxwood in Ledyard CT - in hot, very humid weather. They allow up to a week of dry camping in their parking lot. Terry & I arrived first and discovered a terrible lack of signs to direct RVs to the correct parking area. We made a couple of loops, managed to avoid committing to any route not passable for us and parked in a lot. We tried to call Terry & Judy to tell them where we were but Judy had her phone turned off so we left a couple of messages and hung around. They showed up and got situated beside us.
We had decided to gamble and eat at the casino and headed over about 4:30. Split up to gamble and then met up for a dinner at the buffet. Hung around together until Terry & Judy called it quits shortly after midnight. Terry & I headed back to the rig just after 3 am and we were still so wound up (and it was still very warm) that we had a hard time getting to sleep.

Sept 15th - Mon - to Rhode Island
Even with very little sleep we were awake early to another warm day. We all went back to the buffet at the casino for a very nice, reasonably priced breakfast. Then we wandered through the entire complex to view more casinos, shops, restaurants, etc that we hadn’t seen last night. It is a huge place and has some amazing details - stained glass panels, blown glass “flowers”, a huge glass statue of a native archer that changes colors, a couple of indoor water falls and great carpets & tiles. It includes moving “sidewalks” leading to a hotel, a theater, a ballroom, a show venue, lots of shops, a WPT poker room, a 2 story glass enclosed wine “cellar”, multiple multi-story parking garages and shuttle buses to other parking lots.
We parted from Terry & Judy with promises to stay in touch. We had a 35 minute drive to a Camp Club park in Hope Valley, Rhode Island. There was one spot left and the park employee said we might not fit as someone else had come back previously and said they couldn’t get into the spot. Of course Terry could get us in - simply backed into the pull-through spot - after having to back up to make a tight corner just getting to the spot. The park is in trees and quite large with mostly permanent rigs. We walked all around it and saw very few people. Went to bed early to watch TV and then catch up on some sleep.

Sept 16th - Tues - Rhode Island
Catch up day today. We had a late breakfast and then went towards Providence to find a place to get an oil change. Found a Jiffy Lube and they lived up to their name as we were out in about 20 minutes. Next we went to a large grocery store with a fairly long list to fill. Very nice store (Stop & Shop) with better prices than we have seen for a while. Back to the rig to put everything away.
Uneventful remainder of day - emails, haircuts for Terry & Dolly, misc cleaning, trip planning, relaxing and a nice long phone call to friends Bill & Georgia.