{"id":77,"date":"2015-09-16T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T02:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-09-16T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T02:47:06","slug":"day-3-great-day-on-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 – Great Day on Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today did not start according to plan but turned out to be a great day nevertheless.<\/p>\n

The origin of the problem was the hotel in Riverhead. In an attempt to be different it was, to me, a triumph of form over function. Design is important but the room was small, such that they had to place a large tray with a fancy ice bucket, bottled water and glasses on the bed since it didn’t really fit anywhere else in the room, counter space in the bathroom was almost non-existent and the shower didn’t have a sliding door or curtain to detract from its sleek look so water went everywhere. Anyway, they had an on-site bistro where I was initially planning to have dinner but it, too, was very expensive and weirdly styled so I decided to eat at a nearby Applebees (a chain bar and grill). I ordered a spicy shrimp dish that came with broccoli and pasta in a creamy sauce. It went down nicely, with a beer, but something was off and I found myself feeling dreadful in the middle of the night. Without going into detail I will just say that I didn’t get a lot of sleep and stayed in the room until checkout time just in case.<\/p>\n

Once I was on the road I drove to Cooper’s Beach in Southampton. Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a beach person but I found myself feeling much better after a pleasant stroll along the sands and the day was great from then on. The downside to the lost time was that I was unable to visit a winery in the afternoon as I had planned. The final part of the day’s journey was a pleasant ferry crossing to New London, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Today’s video and route map are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The beautiful expanse of beach in Southampton. You can probably guess where the parking lot was located.<\/p>\n

\"Coopers<\/a>The Montauk Point lighthouse \"Montauk<\/a>The view from inside the light room.\"Montauk<\/a><\/p>\n

The view of New London as the ferry approached.\"New<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today did not start according to plan but turned out to be a great day nevertheless. The origin of the problem was the hotel in Riverhead. In an attempt to be different it was, to me, a triumph of form over function. Design is important but the room was small, such that they had to … Continue reading Day 3 – Great Day on Long Island<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,3],"tags":[14,13,9],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}