We are staying at the KOA compground in North Stonybrook, CT. The facility is huge -- with space for hundreds of campers. Most of the full timers have left for the season, but there are still plenty of travelers here. Brian and Laura love the jumping pillow -- a trampoline like device that lets you bounce to your heart's content. Even big kids enjoy it!The kids worked on homework this morning, and then we drove into Mystic to explore. We were craving hamburgers, so our first stop was “Five Guys and Fries”, reported to be one of the best burgers on the east coast. The food was excellent, especially the spicy hand cut curly fries from Rigby, Idaho! Five Guys and Fries is a chain, and the manager said they were coming soon to Oregon!
Our next stop was the small town of Stonington Village, sitting on a narrow peninsula jutting out into the ocean. Most of the buildings are several hundred years old, but all are in excellent condition. We stopped at the end of the peninsula to watch some fisherman on the jetty. There were a number of lobster pot buoys bobbing along the shore. From Stonington we headed south on Route 1 to Mystic – actually we headed almost straight west. This is hard to get comfortable with directions, as the Connecticut coast runs almost straight east and west (not north and south like most of us imagine)!
We parked downtown so we could browse the shops and view the harbor. The picture of the kids is from the original Mystic Pizza restaurant, made famous by the Julia Roberts movie of the same name. We were going to tour the Mystic Seaport museum, but spending $60 for an hour and 20 minutes didn’t seem like a good investment. Instead we stopped at a video store and rented two movies – Mystic Pizza and Groundhog day. The evening was a classic family movie night, complete with Teressa’s famous tortilla soup. It was fun for the kids to watch movies where they immediately recognized the filming locations.
Our next stop was the small town of Stonington Village, sitting on a narrow peninsula jutting out into the ocean. Most of the buildings are several hundred years old, but all are in excellent condition. We stopped at the end of the peninsula to watch some fisherman on the jetty. There were a number of lobster pot buoys bobbing along the shore. From Stonington we headed south on Route 1 to Mystic – actually we headed almost straight west. This is hard to get comfortable with directions, as the Connecticut coast runs almost straight east and west (not north and south like most of us imagine)!
We parked downtown so we could browse the shops and view the harbor. The picture of the kids is from the original Mystic Pizza restaurant, made famous by the Julia Roberts movie of the same name. We were going to tour the Mystic Seaport museum, but spending $60 for an hour and 20 minutes didn’t seem like a good investment. Instead we stopped at a video store and rented two movies – Mystic Pizza and Groundhog day. The evening was a classic family movie night, complete with Teressa’s famous tortilla soup. It was fun for the kids to watch movies where they immediately recognized the filming locations.
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I met my wife while working at Pfizer Research in Groton, CT (just outside of Mystic). We lived on an old estate property with beach access to the Niantic River (brackish water from the Long Island Sound). Lots of memories! Glad you are all having such a great trip!
Mark Hnath
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