Here’s the route we took, courtesy of Google Maps, driving down the coast in mid-June.
The drive south out of the city along route 93 includes some nice highway decorations, like a giant windmill and a gargantuan watertower painted in a bright array of colors. Once you get past those things, it’s a race to route 95 and on down to Rhode Island, where the cities of Pawtucket, Providence, Cranston, and Warwick are densely packed together along the highway.
Our destination was vague, although we were thinking somewhere near Point Judith, which I saw on Google maps. When we came to Wickford, we just had to stop for lunch. Wickford is the picture-perfect New England town, almost stunning in its quaintness and calm, topping even Exeter, New Hampshire. We had no trouble finding a place to park, right along the water.
Yeah, this place is pretty
We also saw this duck
There are a few different places to eat along the water. I can’t remember the name of place where we ate, but I had my first lobster roll of the summer, and the ratio of lobster to mayo was just right. Then we walked around town; here’s a picture to give you an idea.
Wickford: It's Kind of Perfect™
As we were driving out of town, J read aloud from the guide book that the fictional town of Eastwick from Updike’s Witches of Eastwick was based on Wickford.
In the next post, I’ll describe our drive down route 1A: beaches, baseball, and a lighthouse.