A couple “fun” Rhode Island facts. The tallest building in the state, 111 Westminster St, has been empty since 2013 when Bank of America moved out. It’s only 428’ tall
The third tallest structure in Rhode Island is the Newport Bridge. Goes halfway across the Narraganset from Newport to Jamestown. It’s 400’ tall.
Cyprus, soon to be Mediterranean America, followed by GazAmerica
trumpgaza.com was taken but others like trump-gaza.com and gazatrump.com are still available
They have access to the sea though
I want to see one like this except with the Mercator distortion going east-west.
They’re also an anagram for a neon oversize handbag. What’s your point?
Wait, there’s a “southern” Delaware?
Yep, that’s where “Go Birds!!!” means Ravens, not Eagles
Also the demarcation line between Subs and Hoagies.
I can’t find it, but there’s a skit from the Daily Show where they compare northern and southern Delaware.
FWIW, I grew up in Delaware so I know the difference between slower lower Delaware and an exit off of 95.
Where chickens outnumber people
Well use to be everything south of the canal, but now it’s eaten up with development. Maybe between Dover and Lewis might still be somewhat southern DE.
A guy I went to high school with claimed his mom dated Frank Perdue back in the day.
Lewes is the gateway to OCMD
< Copied from an old post around here >
A few years ago, we were on vacation in Ocean City, MD, and I thought it would be fun to run to Delaware & back
If the first thing you do on the first full day of Vacation is go for an easy 4&1/2 mile trot, you MIGHT be a Runner … When you plan it out ahead of time, and commit the Mile Marks and Turnaround to Memory? That’s when you KNOW you’re a Runner. When you forget where those Markers are, and where that turn IS exactly, and run a little further, just to make SURE that you have it covered? That makes you … ? Me, I guess.
It was pretty cloudy, and even sprinkling a little when I left, but as the Sun struggled to break through the clouds, the Humidity started pumping on the Island. There was a Southerly Breeze going, but it was at my back on the way out = I could hardly notice it. I got 15 Blocks up the road in about 8 minutes; ‘15 blocks per mile’ I reckoned to myself and paced myself accordingly for the 2nd mile up. Now, I don’t know who set the OCMD Public Works Schedule, but I certainly wasn’t expecting to come across so many Trash Trucks on a Sunday Morning; considering the number of restaurants on my side of the route, it made for quite a funk.
As I said, somehow, I had forgotten where my Turnaround was … There’s a sign over the street for Northbound traffic that says “Welcome to Delaware” however, I wasn’t ON that side of the Street. Similarly, there’s a sign on the median that says “Welcome to Ocean City, Maryland” which would have been in my rear-view as I ran past it. So I just kept going a few blocks up into Fenwick until I saw anything with a 302 Area Code.
Mission Accomplished, I pulled a 180 and headed for home, on the same sidewalk I’d gone out on. As many Runners as there were out, it wasn’t really much of a problem “sharing lanes” Everyone was very pleasant, with waves & nods of acknowledgement. I also notice several post-run folks strolling along with their Dunkin cups. I noticed a dude on the opposite side of the street, and we “raced” for half a mile or so, until he ducked in between a pair of Beachfront hotels. It was Low Tide at this time, but again, I didn’t want to run on the beach and zoom past our hotel, turning my easy 4&1/2 to something further … plus, D’Girls would be getting up soon, probably
