For the past two years, I’ve heard a few people mention this random lotus pond on the road to Wickford Village (RI). But whenever I drove by the area that people described, I could never find the plants, even after looking up directions online. Last week I was driving towards Wickford from Narragansett in a hurry to get somewhere […]
Book Recommendation: Blue Highways
Blue Highways is the story of author William Least Heat Moon’s journey through the United States in a van in the early 1980’s. He sets out after a breaking up with his wife and losing his job to take to “the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and […]
Savannah Marine Education Center and Aquarium
Back in April, when I (and the rest of Rhode Island) had had just about enough of the brutal winter weather, I jumped at the chance to attend a work conference in Savannah, Georgia. Because my office deals with research vessels, most of our meetings are in beautiful coastal locations. I had been eager to […]