DAY 4 - MONDAY 10th SEPTEMBER 2007

Newport, Rhode Island to Orleans, Cape Cod (Miles to date: 240)

Woke to an extremely dreary morning. The grey clouds hung like a limp, damp blanket over Newport. A good day for traveling but not ideal for putting up our tent.

Our only stops on route were Dunkin Donuts (for some much needed refreshment) and the town of Sandwich in Cape Cod. We thought this would be a good place to eat our sandwiches we had bought for lunch. Notice how we are using irony to punctuate our tour - we may progress to higher forms of humour later!!!!. The weather had not improved at this stage but we found a very pretty little lake to park ourselves at ... which was idyllic until the heavens opened.

Arriving at our camp site - in the very beautiful Nickerson State Park (near Orleans, MA) - we had the unenviable task of unloading our van and erecting our tent. As you might expect we realized at this stage we had bought to much "stuff" with us. For those who saw our van shortly before we left I think they might agree that traveling light was not our modus operandii.

Putting up the tent didn't take too long. It was getting dark and gloomy before we had finished and the rain the had also set-in. We "cooked" our first thing - well boiled up some water for a hot chocolate and then jumped into our cosy inflatable beds for our first night under canvas.