Salut tout le monde! Hi everyone! To prevent you from photo overload, I’m going to split my road trip recap into 2. Today, we start at the beginning.
The great paradox of being unemployed is that you finally have time to travel to your heart’s content, but you no longer have the money. But when Rose suggested we take advantage of a deal for a night’s stay on Shelter Island, I jumped at the chance to get off my couch and get in a car. (I didn’t even know where it was; I didn’t actually care.) Road trips are about the only kind of travel I can afford right now, and it’s such a beautiful time of year to be traveling, with all the fall foliage.
We got a little bit later of a start than we had planned, but we lucked out with the traffic. She picked me up in Brooklyn and we headed out to Long Island. Of course, us being us, there was going to be some kind of detour. That day’s was for a bathroom stop at an outlet mall, where we saw they had one of the cosmetics outlet stores. Of course we had to stop. Rose got the burgundy lipstick she had been craving for fall, so it worked out pretty well.
Back on the road, we were headed for the city of Greenport, where we would get the ferry over to Shelter Island. We only had one time constraint: We had to find a place to watch the Real Madrid match by the latest 2:45. We beat that time by a great deal, getting to Greenport before 1 pm. Good thing, since this gave us time to walk around the tiny, quaint, seaside town. It was a grey, overcast, drizzly day, but it was still an adventure.
It’s so cute!
Soooo old town USA!
So gorgeous
The oldest family-owned restaurant in the US!
It doesn’t have “port” in its name for nothing!
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Ahoy there, Shelter Island!
You could tell that we were there off-season, because it was pretty deserted and a lot of shops were closed. You could tell it would be even more adorable during the summer when everything was open. Also, when the weather was better.
But it didn’t matter for our purposes. We found a place to watch our match, and we settled in.
The people here were so nice. They turned on the match for us as soon as we asked, even though it wasn’t on yet.
Pumpkin Ale with cinnamon and sugar…mmmmmmmm (I want more!)
NATURALLY Xabi was with us for the trip. He was brought out for good luck. Which we really needed.
The match over, our team victorious in less than impressive fashion (but we still won, that’s what counts?), we were on our way. We drove onto the ferry, and couldn’t have timed it better, because guess what? The sun started to come out. 🙂
Same day, just other side of the boat!
I just couldn’t stop photographing this! It was so pretty!
I’m on a boat!
All the photos like these are unedited, by the way! It just looked like this!
Stay tuned for part 2 of the road trip recap, where we actually make it to Shelter Island! What kind of trips do you like to take?
So fun!! I love exploring cute little towns, especially in off-season – no need to battle with crowds. That beer looks DIVINE, by the way. Looking forward to part two!
It was a lot of fun! There wasn't too much to see, but the desertedness added to its charm. The beer was DELICIOUS. I especially love it when they do it with cinnamon and sugar, such a nice touch!
Quel bel endroit!
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Merci! Je suis d'accord. 🙂
Quaint fishing towns are like a drug for me. It looks like it would be perfect to wander around during the summer. Which is something you should then do next year :p
And then curse out all the freaking annoying tourists and miss it when it was deserted, haha. 🙂