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Pic o’ the Month: Newport Cliff Walk, RI
Quote o’ the Month: Robin Leach – Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
Welcome to the Wanderer, a site about ghost towns, abandoned places, places with little known or forgotten history, roadside curiosities, and the occasional tourist trap. We deal primarily with southern New Jersey and the Pine Barrens, but we are now based in the Poconos and learning our way around Pennsylvania. Over the past few years, we’ve been slowly expanding and covering more area, going as far north as New England and as far west as Indiana.
Feel free to browse the 200+ places I’ve visited and photographed.
February 1, 2010:
New England Part 2. All Rhode Island:
Block Island Indian Cemetery
Mohegan Bluffs on Block Island
Newport’s Cliff Walk
I’ve noticed the Pennsylvania pages lately have been the most popular. Fret not, more PA stuff will be on the way.
Spring semester is in full force, and I’m also in the process of attempting to get my (hopefully) upcoming book out to publishers, so updates might be slow for a bit. In the meantime, feel free to add the site’s Facebook fan page.
Because lots of fans is a great measure of self-worth.
December 28, 2009:
This is Part 1 of our New England trip. This batch is all from Massachusetts; next time is Rhode Island.
Ghost town of Dogtown
Mayflower II
Plymouth Rock
Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery
November 6, 2009:
And here you are. An update. Really. Not as big as I had planned, but that just means there’ll be more for next month.
Rock Garden of America, NC – hokey roadside stop
And the Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe, PA
October 1, 2009:
Well, I was going to try and have an update for September done yesterday, but with midterms, observation hours, and other college goodness, it wasn’t meant to be. Plus I felt an update would have been rushed and half-assed, so I’m just going to hold off until I have more time and not try to stick to imaginary update schedules.
This upcoming week we’re going on vacation, so perhaps after that I’ll have some new things posted.
August 26, 2009:
Back in May, Lizz and I took a 2-day trip to Rhode Island. We toured a mansion in Newport and took the ferry to Block Island, where we both rode a tandem bike for the first time ever. During all that, we came across a few noteworthy places:
Touro Park’s “Viking Tower”
Ocean View Hotel Ruins on Block Island
Old Stone House Ruins in Scarborough State Park
July 10, 2009:
This update is all PA. A ghost town, an abandoned amusement park, and ruins surrounded by local legends this time around:
Rausch Gap
Angela Park
Devil’s Hole Ruins
June 18, 2009:
Got this up quicker than I imagined. Since I have things from as far back as February that still haven’t been posted, I’m posting 3 new places this month:
Duffy’s Cut
Stockton Mine Disaster
Knox Mine Disaster
I’m also posting somewhat of a photo tour of the Seaside Heights boardwalk, pre-Memorial Day. This was kind of a trip down Memory Lane for me as well as proof that one of the most popular Jersey Shore destinations is pretty dead for most of the year.
June 15th, 2009:
Well, here is the site revamp. Took over a month and a half and we had to rebuild every page. Hope everyone likes it and sees it as an improvement; we sure do. So go browse, comment, explore.
Will be posting a few new places later this month; I have quite a bit in queue.
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Newport Cliff Walk
Newport’s Cliff Walk is a 3.5 mile long trail that winds along the shoreline and passes through 64 private properties, many of which are mansions. Most of Newport’s most famous estates, like Rosecliff and The Breakers are along this path (we actually toured Rosecliff in May ‘09 but were not allowed to take photos inside, [...]
Mohegan Bluffs
Photos taken May & October 2009
Simply put, this is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. Mohegan Bluffs, found on the southern end of Block Island, drop down nearly 200 feet to the beach below. Centuries ago, much of the Mohegan tribe was forced over the cliffs by the Manisee tribe in [...]
Block Island Indian Cemetery
I read about this cemetery after my first trip to Block Island and decided to look for it on my second trip. I had never been to an “Indian” cemetery before and was curious to see one. This graveyard was used by the Manisee tribe who originally inhabited the island. Upon the introduction of white [...]
Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery
Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery is the oldest in the US that’s run by an animal welfare group. We originally came here because we read about a few celebrities’ pets being interred here, but it’s an impressive place so we stayed a while. Some sections are especially old and showing their age.
There were 2 particular graves [...]
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock, one of the oldest tourist attractions in the US, is just that – a rock. Said to be where the Pilgrims first set foot in the New World, Plymouth is more of an ideal than an actual physical place, mostly because we aren’t 100% sure of the exact spot where the Pilgrims first [...]
Mayflower II
Just up the road a bit from Plymouth Rock is the Mayflower II, which is by all accounts an accurate replica of the original ship of Pilgrim fame. I couldn’t find any information anywhere on whether or not the ship’s to scale, but it’s likely nobody’s really sure what the original Mayflower’s measurements were.
…anyway, essentially [...]
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