037

Anyone want to hang? I'll be here till Sunday morning.

Photoshoot maybe? I haven't looked around yet but the 25mph speed limits are already starting to bug me. Price of gas is around $4.40/g for 93.

Trip average so far over 170mi is 22.5 mpg.

lumpulus

Should waited until the Concours de Elegance.

PVD24

I went to college in Newport... definitely check out the Pelham and Bowen's Wharf.... cant go wrong...

037

went to check out the Wharf yesterday, clam and scallop chowder soups were the best I ever had. Plus the bowls were huge.

I did get charged $3 for 2 sips of pineapple juice, and when confronting the waitress I got a 2nd, large cup of juice...for another $3.

At least she gave me back the $10 I paid for parking.

So...I thought I was ticked at 25mph speed limit, most other places in this area have it at 20!!!

Going to be visiting the castles today.

PVD24

definitely take a drive on Ocean Drive...skip the tours.. they are boring and over priced.... check out the Breakers Mansion... and Fort Adams... but definitely drive Ocean Drive... its like nothing you have ever seen before...

lumpulus

I didn't find the mansion tours boring nor overpriced, and we went within the last year.
Marble House is definitely worth the tour. Fort Adams is where the Concours takes place.

037

not sure I'll get to ocean drive as it's 20mi away from current location but I will definitely visit if I'm in the area. Haven't used my lil video cams yet so will definitely mount those if anything interesting comes up.

PVD24

maybe its because I was a college kid and looking at old mansions was boring to me... and over priced... I still love Newport, but only when the tourists are gone...

037

well, done with the mansions. They are still boring even when you're hitting higher than just graduated numbers.

Ocean Drive was...a nice drive. Was recording on 2 GoPro's from 3 positions so I may post those videos in here eventually.

To round up my day, I went to some animal sculpture gardens when I backed into a concrete barrier with a metal nail sticking out...that destroyed one of my mud guards.

Trip average 19.7mpg over 227mi.

Last gas fill up $4.279/gallon for 93.

neuronbob

Sounds like a nice, quiet time.

037

guess you missed the part where one of my new mud guards is destroyed.

I am home, decided to abandon ship round 10:45pm and got home bout 2am.

20.7mpg trip average with average speed in the 40's over 350+ mi's.

Will post pics up later.

oo7spy

350 mi @ 40+ mph?!? Sounds like y'all need some wide open Texas highways!

tnobori1

Those averages are from the car. That counts city driving, etc.

oo7spy

Gosh, I hope so. I forget the car keeps an average speed. I thought he meant for the long haul from RI to NY he averaged 40+ mph. That would be gruesome.

037

yes...that averages in 20-25mph city limits, which can drive someone insane. 40 is what I eeked out w/ busts up to 90.

cops are using more and more laser traps even w/ photo traps.

037

here's the Ocean Drive video, sound track addition in progress but you can hear all the wind noise now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYW3qtNU8k

PVD24

I knew you would enjoy Ocean Drive.. we use to take that drive in between classes for a nice break...

037

if the speed limit wasn't 20 I would have enjoyed it a bit more me thinks.

I like the signs for slow children where essentially it's a picture of a speed demon with ostrige legs...

lumpulus

Leave the music out...not needed, and edit out that geek at the start...homeless guy?

DiabloSVRacer

agreed! i would have told that geek/homeless guy to go kick rocks somewhere else, he doesn't belong anywhere near a RL!!!

just kidding!!!