Wanderings and Ramblings from West Michigan

Our travels, thoughts, and pictures. We like rocks, and birds, and flowers, and lighthouses, and turtles, and waterfalls, and sunsets, and lots of other stuff.

Category: Travel

All of our ramblings about travel

  • Gloucester and Whale Watching!

    Gloucester and Whale Watching!

    We woke up on Saturday excited that we were going to go whale watching. We packed up and made it almost 50 miles to Gloucester before we found a place […] Read more

  • Newport, RI and Plymouth, MA

    Newport, RI and Plymouth, MA

    We started our day at the Middletown/Newport Days Inn. After a quick continental breakfast and coffee, we found the Cliff Walk. We parked at the end of Narragansett Ave. Tammy, […] Read more

  • Norwalk, CT and Travel to Newport, RI

    Norwalk, CT and Travel to Newport, RI

    We headed out from Philadelphia, and aside from stopping at nearly every service plaza along the way, we drove straight to Norwalk, Connecticut. Our first stop was a dinner stop […] Read more

  • Philadelphia

    Philadelphia

    We got to Philadelphia and stayed at Motto by Hilton in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. We booked the hotel because it was inexpensive and it looked like a decent neighborhood […] Read more

  • On to Philadelphia

    On to Philadelphia

    We left Ocean City and made it as far as the Fenwick Island Lighthouse. It is the oldest lighthouse in Delaware. We stood on the line between Maryland and Delaware. […] Read more

  • Ocean City

    Ocean City

    We stayed at the Plim Plaza Hotel. The hotel has an excellent location, right on the boardwalk. The Plim Plaza was built in 1963 on the location where the Plimhimmon […] Read more

  • On the road to Ocean City MD

    On the road to Ocean City MD

    We woke up in Thornburg VA at Tru by Hilton and realized that Dominion Raceway and Entertainment was right out our hotel room window. After an excellent complimentary breakfast with […] Read more

  • Long travel day and Lanterman’s Mill

    Long travel day and Lanterman’s Mill

    Here we are in Virginia on our way to Maine. It was a long day of travel yesterday. According to Google Maps we traveled 485 miles. We spent time in […] Read more

  • Put-In-Bay

    Put-In-Bay

    We started the day with breakfast at Dianna’s Deli and Restaurant and then we took the Miller Ferry to Put-In-Bay. We caught a bus ride in to town and picked […] Read more

  • Auburn and Catawba Island

    Auburn and Catawba Island

    We started the day with breakfast at Jeannie’s Diner in Coldwater. The food was excellent and we had three employees check on us to make sure we were happy with […] Read more