Late night cowboy

    Last night after we had settled into bed, I heard some loud odd singing.  Shortly afterwards, there was the added sound of hoofs clopping down the street. I got out of bed to verify what I heard, and sure  enough an enebriated cowboy was coming down the street singing some kind of protest song, at least I think it was. He looked like he was staying in his saddle, though not with much style.

    Sometime later I heard verifiable hoof clops , surprisingly tricky with ocean waves  lapping nearby, and got this picture from our room window  as the 2 cowboys headed back the way they came. I knew there are horses on Block Island, as I have seen ads for riding tours, I had just never seen them, nor expected to, on the streets  of Old Harbor.

    Today we have mostly been chilling, doing some reading, and I did some writing during our peaceful visit to the Pavilion. Tomorrow we rent bikes and ride. 🚲  ^_^

Block Island 2017

    Sandy and I took our time heading off to Block Island this year. For some reason I have not been able to focus as easily on planning this year, including a slight anxiety about packing. With the amount of  travel I have done for work, packing anxiety has not been much of  an issue, so I’m not sure why now. I am trying out a new day pack Sandy got, which has a removable Bluetooth speaker/battery/solar panel unit. The pack is designed more for work usage than vacation travel, and I’m figuring out how best to put stuff in it.

    As you can see in the picture above,  some poor, likely innocent, diving suit has met an untimely demise, apparently beheaded no less. And so we start our vacation with a mystery. With our slow start, and 2 accidents impacting traffic, we didn’t make the 11am ferry, and had plenty of time before the 1:30pm ferry. That also meant  we got our pick of table seats on the ferry, a rare commodity.

    We knew that the Block Island Wind Farm had been nearing completion, and we read that it went  online in early May, letting the BI Power Company shut down their diesel generators. In this next picture, if you zoom in, you can see all 5 wind turbines, as we pull into Old Harbor.

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