Plan B-b

Again the weather didn't look promising for the day - foggy, cloudy and then a 50% chance of rain for the rest of the day, increasing  towards evening and even more tomorrow - with flooding expected.  Our original plans were to leave tomorrow heading to Essex Village, CT.  We were planning to stay at the Griswold Inn.  Yup, I had visions of  National Lampoon's Vacation with Chevy Chase, too, but the Griswold Inn is a historic inn in what looks to be a charming town.  And it is near the Gillette Castle in East Haddam.  Google it if you get a chance - it looked like a photographer's paradise.  But you will note that I said "planning".  Rain on a motorcycle trip has a strange way of making plans suddenly become flexible.  So we cancelled the reservations at the Griswold Inn and will be staying here one more night.

But about today - we made the impulsive decision to ride our bikes into town to walk along Cliff Walk and get some pictures.  The nice young lady at the front desk gave us easy directions and ideas where to park.

I mentioned the foggy part of the forecast, right?  Well, here's the thing about fog and motorcycles.  Fog really is little tiny raindrops whose sole mission is to attach themselves to motorcycle windshields.  And driving to Cliff Walk, the fog did just that - accumulated on our windshields making it difficult to see.  But we pushed on!  We found parking spaces near the beach by Cliff Walk.  We paid for two hours of parking and headed to Cliff Walk.  The first 2/3 mile was the ocean, cliff and beach roses on one side and boxwood and bushes on the other side.

After that the mansions became visible and we were able to snap a few shots be needing to head back to the parking meters.  As you can see, the mansions are HUGE.  I can't understand why anyone would need a house so big.  Great views, but...