The GDAT!! Roadshow: Newport.
Jeff
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Today the Go Do A TEST!! Roadshow is coming to you from beautiful and historic downtown Newport, Rhode Island.
Beautiful because you can stroll along Thames Street, or past some of the “cottages” down on Bellevue Avenue, or any of hundreds of little side streets containing landmarks like Trinity Church, The White Horse Tavern, the Brick Market, and the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Historic not just because George Washington was honored by Rochambeau at Colony House (where, I am told, the General/eventual-President addressed the crowded square from its second floor balcony.) Not because of Fort Adams and its place in American history. Not because in 1983 the Aussies ripped the America’s Cup from Dennis Connor and the once firm grip (since 1857) of the New York Yacht Club. (I’m still not OK with that.) Nor is it historic because the old Dockside Saloon is where I got to meet the fabulous Matt “Guitar” Murphy of the Blues Brothers.
No, Newport is historic for me because this is where yours truly first met NancyTW in 1991. Of course, she would have first been NancyTG (the girlfriend) and eventually NancyTF (the fiancé.)
After arriving Sunday, we had lunch at the site of our first date, Yesterday’s, in Washington Square. Opposite Eisenhower Park and its larger than life statue of Newport’s own Oliver Hazard Perry, Yesterday’s is a nice, informal pub/restaurant that’s easily accessible from anywhere downtown – unless you’re using a car. For those burdened with four-wheeled vehicles, you must first burn off a tank of gas looking for a space to park, and ultimately settle on one in Milwaukee.
But it’s worth it. Newport has lots of fun stuff to do and experience, and there is no shortage of eateries for every desire on the scale of culinary preferences. Carb counting is, after all, the same in the Brick 
Alley Pub as it is at La Petite Auberge. Some places just require that your math be done in a jacket and tie.
And if I am in Newport on the happy day that diabetes is cured, I will take a bullhorn, find my way up to George Washington’s second floor balcony at Colony House, and announce the good news personally to the passerby below in Washington Square.
You will throw my bail, won’t you?
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Reader Comments (6)
Jeff, You know we'll bail you out - we'll have all that extra money from not having to spend it on diabetes stuff. Hallelujah!
This looks like a really cool place to visit.
Donna -- Newport is an exciting town, especially in the summertime. I hope to get some sunny pictures later in the week.
The banner photo is one that I took last year of the Newport Bridge (and its 400 foot towers) that connects Newport with the island of Jamestown to the west. I remember taking the ferry before the bridge was completed in 1969. It has been renamed after a politician, but no one I know calls it anything but The Newport Bridge. Years ago, when I moved my sister (NancyTS) to college, she played Bridge Over Troubled Water on her upright piano in the back of the van as we crossed the East Passage of Narragansett Bay. No seat belt laws in those days!
Oh, and I'll try to avoid the authorities so that you can put that extra insulin money to better use than springing me from the clinker! ;^)
Ah, my old stomping grounds. I worked in Newport for several years, and spent waaaay too many nights at the old Aidan's pub (which isn't there anymore and I miss it terribly). And Yesterday's has the best fries EVER - my girlfriends and I would have dinner there all the time. Actually, Chris and I were in Newport a few weeks ago and we had lunch at Yesterday's!
Now I'm completely nostalgic and I miss RI. I can't wait to go home this weekend. :)
Hi Kerri. No doubt about it. This city is full of things to do, people to see, and places to go. The Red Parrot yesterday, Sardella's tonight, someplace else tomorrow. Every time I come back I end up taking tons of pictures, trying to somehow bring it all home to Florida with me later.
Oh, I love Newport. It's such a pretty town. They have a great Irish festival there, too.
I took my Canadian MIL to Newport a couple of years ago. She was gobsmacked by the age of the buildings. It made me chuckle.
Hi MB. The only Irish Festival in Newport that I was ever able to attend was a long, long time ago, and it was a drizzly, dank sort of day. But there still were plenty of shamrock-wearing dogs marching in the streets!