We planned to stop only for four days but stayed a week. We enjoyed Block Island. Good restaurants, many greenway trails, and stunning views.

A favorite may have been the bakery boat delivering calzones, cannoli, and cookies to anyone who hails them on VHF channel 71.

From the show:

“… it was named after a Dutch explorer, Adrian Block, who charted the area in, I believe, 1614. Prior to that, the island was populated by Narragansett Indians and was called Manisses, meaning The Island of the Little God…”

“…I'm always perplexed by the serendipitous occurrences like this. It happens more often than it should. You meet somebody and a few thousand miles away you meet them again without any plan and you both recognize each other. You smile and you say hello…”

“…you are unable to walk off the trail with a maybe a small exception of the prairie sections, but the rest is just impassable brambles. We have to keep the dog on a leash. It's a rule and a law. And second, if he were to decide to leap into the greenery, I don't think we'd be able to extract him.…”

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