Steps: 3,808,718
Miles: 1595.76
Plum Island Light House
At the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has an important job:
The Plum Island Animal Disease Center is responsible for research and diagnosis to protect United States animal industries and exports against catastrophic economic losses caused by foreign animal disease (FAD) agents accidentally or deliberately introduced into the U.S.Perhaps they are working to protect us from poisoned gumballs too. Anyway...
You may have heard of the popular American writer Nelson Richard DeMille who was born in New York City on August 23, 1943. He moved as a child with his family to Long Island.
DeMille is the author of: By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, The General's Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion's Game, Up Country, Night Fall, and Wild Fire.
In "Plum Island":
John Corey of the NYPD is convalescing from gunshot wounds at Uncle Harry's house on the North Fork of Long Island. His friends, Tom and Judy Gordon, who worked on Plum Island, are found murdered on their front porch and John agrees to assist the town Police Chief Sylvester Maxwell with the case. Eboli virus, biological warfare germs, buried treasure, pirates, vineyards, and the Peconic Historical Society are all tied together somehow in this exciting summer beach read.
As the Virtual Walker strolls down the gangplank and off of the ferry boat, he enters the town of New London which lies on the Thames River, going under a sign proclaiming, "Welcome to Connecticut".
The state's motto "He who Transplanted Sustains Us" is displayed on a white ribbon in Latin. Many of those that originally settled in Connecticut came from Massachusetts in the 1630s. The state bird is that harbinger of spring, the Red-breasted Robin.
Our Virtual Walk through Connecticut will be a very short one since it is less than 15 miles to Rhode Island. Time permitting, we will tour Groton and Mystic Seaport before leaving the state.
7 comments:
Nice lighthouse. Lots of miles traveled, Iggy. You must be getting pretty close to the end of your virtual walk.
440 miles more to Lubec, Maine! With luck I will get there by mid-September.
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Whoohoo! Time to start thinking about the route of the next trip then! I seem to remember a comment about going across the states and someone pointing out there's a dead zone of pretty much nothing for a stretch so how about diagonally across the states? Since you'll be in Maine you can go from there across to the southern part of California...then up through that state into Oregon and Washington...then diagonally back through to Florida again.
After just walking 7 miles non-stop and over 33 miles in the past 4 days what you are proposing Styxie just leaves me exhausted thinking about it! LOL
I was thinking maybe a few "side trips" and maybe something new like "can you guess where this picture came from?" where I post a picture and maybe a hint - and see if you can determine the location.
But I'm open to suggestions!
I love that last idea, Iggy. Sounds like fun to me. :)
Too bad you're heading East, and missing the rest of CT.
Whatever you do will be great Iggy. I really like the idea of a NTT place. Huggsss to you. I love reading your blog.
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