Cliff Walk

We ended up with a childless Memorial Day weekend and even knowing that the weather would be lousy, decided to get out of town. We used to go to Newport, Rhode Island before we had kids, so that sounded like a good getaway. Not too far and fun to walk around even if it’s chilly.

The weather lived up to the forecast and was terrible. But we love to walk and decided to bundle up and go for it. There is a cool walk called the Cliff Walk along the water and near the mansions (Newport was the playground of the rich folks back in the day, Morgans, Astors, Vanderbilts, etc.)

We had walked it before, but never the whole thing. It starts out nicely paved.

Parts of it are less so…

Some parts are genuinely tricky on a rainy day. I don’t have pictures of those parts as I was trying not to fall on my butt.

It’s quite long…

There are many cool mansions.

One of the Vanderbilts apparently thought a Chinese Tea House would be nice. Go figure.

On a nicer day, it could be spectacular. On a bad day it was still pretty cool. We were pretty much soaked by the end of the walk, but fun nonetheless.