Newport, RI. Last year I anticipated this run so long before I got here, but I accidentally got up too late, ran facing the sun, and was dehydrated and miserable by the time I finished. It's called Ocean Drive/Brenton Point. It's it's a really pretty road that winds along beautiful old (palacial) homes & their manicured lawns, and the point where it smells like seaweed and brine. This year I ran the opposite way, starting out on Bellevue (running in the shade of the trees plated along the roads of all those huge old mansions that belonged to the Vanderbilts, the Rockerfellers, the Astors, etc). and ran the point, and back toward Ft. Adams (where the music will play all today and tommorrow), cut through the middle near the high school and then back over to Bellvue. I started out at 6:00 a.m. (that's 4:00 am. for those of you in Utah) and when I got back a few hours later, my sister was waiting for me to take her on a walk. So we went out the door again for another 5 mile walk along the Cliff Walk behind the mansions. I usually love that walk, but there were too many people out and it was already sweltering by 8:30 so it made the path crowded and not as pleasant. But still it is always wonderful to see the sufers and breath the ocean air, tinged with the smell of sweet honeysuckle while considering what life might have been like for a Rockerfeller in 1901. I love this place. | 