Remodeling the Rock?????

September 24th, 2008 65* sunny

We arrived in Mass late on Tuesday night. LONG trip! Only 500 miles but time wise WAY to long. We left at 7:30am and should have been there by 5 no later than 6pm, we stopped along the way in Scranton Pa to visit a friend of mine for a few minutes. Tom is a fellow metal detectorist and I wanted to meet him in person so we stopped. I was suppose to go hunting with him and a couple of other guys but due to getting ill earlier last week it just was not in the cards.

Anyway, we got hung up by an accident in Hartford Conn, for about 45 minutes, had trouble finding a place to eat if you can imagine that! Well we finally found a subway to eat at, crappy food for sure, bun was hard never the amount of meat as they show on the commercials where the bun is lifted off by 2" of meat! So we ate anyway cause we were hungry and headed back for the highway. We are on the ramp with a rock wall to our left dividing the ramp and the highway, we just clear the ramp and instantly in front of us appears a VERY LARGE DEER MID LEAP! We literally missed it by 1 sec, otherwise it would have been IN the cab with us! That was a bit of an eye opener to start our trip back out on!

We ended up arrivin at the campground around 7:45 in the dark! The last 1o miles was the worst we had a hell of a time with getting thru what they call round a bouts, to us it is a traffic circle with too many turnoffs! Miss one and your on for a ride, there is no turning around and going back OHHHH NOOO you gotta go 2 miles to get turned around. I shit you not we missed that friggin thing at least 4 TIMES! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! But anyway we got here and hooked up and decided to hit the bed early.

Wednesday morning, wake up and the temp is 39* brrrrrrrr! We decided we would do some sight seeing today. All we really wanted to do was get to the ocean and walk on the beach! NOT! Every place we went was private!!! SUCKS! Finally got onto a semi private beach when we got to my friend Ricks place! DAMN! So we walked out to the water and I tested the temp COLD! Not walking in that! We went with Rick to a place called the Red Parrot, basically a sea food Restaurant. Rick ordered the fishermans catch, we just knew it was gonna be too much so we split one! We did and still left STUFFED! Great food though, fish, scallops, shrimp the size of a sparrow, clams fries and onion rings! WOW!









So back to the title! We go to Plymouth Rock park, this is where it all started in 1620, we had major with us so we were kind of limited on how much we could do. They have a mock up of the Mayflower, we walked out onto the peir an got some pics then went to find "The ROCK" Hmmm it is under construction! WHAT THE HELL IS THERE TO RECONSTUCT! They were building a huge monument over the rock and you could still look thru a window and see it below but not like you could touch it :( But we saw it! Cool downtown area with lots of shops and eateries.

Tomorrow we are gonna meet Rick and do some metal detecting.