This trip is a mid-season get away for Crystal and I. After an exhausting season of weddings, we needed a bit of time to unwind, so we thought we’d fly to New England for an extended weekend. The reason we chose New England is because when I was in the Navy, I lived on the Submarine base for 6 years and Crystal wanted to share in that part of my life. It has been a LONG time since I was here, so I was really curious about how it had changed.
We are excited about our trip but really tired. To catch our plane, we had to leave the house at 5:15am! We almost never see that time of the morning unless it’s from the night before! 
We got to Hartford about noon, picked up our rental hot-rod and drove for another boring hour to Mystic Ct. Mystic is everything I remember and a LOT more!
We drove around my old haunts in Groton, New London, and Mystic. We couldn’t get on the Sub Base since I am not in the military anymore, which was disappointing, but we did go to the Submarine Museum.
We even went on-board the worlds first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus. That was a pretty cool history trip for me. While it wasn’t like my ship, the USS Kamehameha, it gave Crys a small idea of what submarine life was all about.
We went to thew world famous Mystic Pizza featured in the film of the same name and then ended our day as we watched the sunset at the Groton beach.
Well, we’ve had a busy day and we’re pretty tired, so it’s bedtime for me. We’ll put more on day two tomorrow!
Dan
