Day 15 of the road trip.

• After breakfast, packed our bags and headed out from Plymouth. There was light rain. Our first destination was a house known as "The Breakers" at Newport, once owned by the Vanderbilt family.
• Magnificent house - something like 70 rooms, 23 bathrooms. This house was only used for the summer period of about 6-8 weeks by the Vanderbilt family. They had 20 servants inside and about 20 outside. Beautiful rooms - much of the decor and materials imported - French and Italian themes. There was also a playhouse for the children. The grandchildren used to ride their tricycles in the main room where parties were also held. The children also used trays to slide down the magnificent staircase - normal kids!
  
• Bought a few postcards and souvenirs.
  
• Left there and drove around the Ocean Road, beautiful views of the Atlantic and some absolutely magnificent houses - some of these are also open to the public.
  
• Rain kept falling, but we managed some photographs. Visited an old fort - Fort Adams.
  
• Left Newport and headed north - not via the Newport (Pell) Bridge or Jamestown Verrazano Bridge - too long and too high! Went back through Fall River and the outskirts of Providence - amazing system of roads to get us around Providence.
• Headed north west on 146 and before turning west on 90  just south of Worcester (near a town called Sutton) stopped in at Purgatory Chasm State Reservation.  Not raining at this time, so went for a walk down the chasm - rocky creek bed. There was a group of school children there too.
• Somewhere along the road we saw a Tim Horton's and had our chilli and bagel meal - still good, great in the cold weather we had today.  The rain has stopped (probably stopped for the Red Sox game tonight).
• Drove west on the 90 to Springfield and then south to our hotel at East Windsor. Nice room, king size bed.
• Went down to bar for a drink - had Long Trail, a Vermont dark ale. Very tasty and very very cold.
  
• Dinner - at the bar -  We shared the appetiser of 4 potato skins - almost half a potato in each, with cheese and bacon - nice. John's main course was meat loaf, baked whole potato, gravy and corn. He said it was very tasty.  Mine was a steak, with mashed potato, peas, and a gravy with onions and peppers (capsicum). Very tasty, steak well cooked (medium). We had a few of the beers, watched some TV and then back to our room.
  
• Long day of driving tomorrow through the Catskills.