The Dinosaur Place – Oakdale CT
The perfect amusement park for small children and the young-at-heart.
Category: Connecticut
G’s Treasures – Used Furniture & Antiques – Deep River Connecticut
Ooooo, a lovely little antique shop right on Main Street!
Quarry Park Ruins – Rocky Hill Connecticut
A scattered assortment of heavily graffiti covered ruins made for a great adventure!
Spiderweed Preserve Ruins – Middletown CT
A brisk upward hike leads us to the ruins of an old stone home being reclaimed by nature.
Shopping at Old Mystik Village – Mystic CT
So many niche stores to delight any eccentric at heart!
B F Clyde’s Cider Mill – Mystic CT
ALL HAIL THE APPLE – this is your one stop shop to get anything and everything apple. Cider, hard cider, apple cider doughnuts, lots of apple-y bakes goods and so much more.
Apple Picking at Whittle Willow’s Spring Farm in Mystic Connecticut
A charming little orchard with the bonus of a tiny cemetery and a pen full of hungry pigs!
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Part of the fun of letting my travel companions decide the locations is the fact I end up in even more bizarre places than I would normally. The puppetry museum was definitely one of these! We’d both had an interest in such things but I probably would have avoided being a lone person wandering the… Continue reading Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Gay City State Park – Hebron CT
Sometimes I get tired of finding new locations or I just lack inspiration. It’s at these times I like to hand the torch over to my travel companions and tell them to pick a place. I’m always happy to drive and the surprise of these adventures ticks off my ever expanding need for novelty. On… Continue reading Gay City State Park – Hebron CT
Gillette Castle – East Haddam CT
The most brilliant castle I have seen in New England.