On the road

July 8th

 Hi everyone.  I am Barney  Bear.  I am traveling with Bob and Becky Clapp ( often know as Grandpa. Grandma, Mom, Dad, or friend.  We have been traveling north since June 25th.  As you know, we started our trip going to see Nana and Papa.  Then we spent 4 days in the mountains of Virginia.  I had forgotten how beautiful they are.  Logan, Miranda, Nathan, and Cameron can follow our trip on a map if they want to.  We then went up and spent time with Heather, Rob, Nathan, and Cameron at Swallow Tail State park almost in West Virginia.  Had a good time climbing on the rocks there.  Then we went home with them and headed to New York to see Becky's cousin.  Then we arrived here in Newport, Rhoad Island.  We came here to see the enormous homes rich people built here on the water.  They are ridiculously big.  You can see me in front of them.  The beaches here are very popular but not as nice as ours in FL.  Most of the coast line is covered in rocks, so a sandy beach is pretty rare and popular even if the sand is not very nice.  We took a walk on a trail along a cliff and got to see a lot of the fancy houses from there.The next day after we got here we drove to  Mystic Seaport to see a museum of old wooden sailing whaling boats where they restore the boats and show how they were built..  The next day we drove to Old Bedford to see another museum about whaling boats.  Got to climb in them.  Very neat places.  The houses here look very different from ours.  Many are covered in dark wood shingles about 6inches long by 8 inches tall.  We went to a farm and picked raspberries.  It was the first time we had ever done it.