Day 5 we went back down to Cape Cod and ventured into Chatham a seaside village with a lighthouse and nice beach. I could live here. We did the tourist things and shopped and milled around and made our way up the coast to the next crossroads where we picked up highway 6 again and went back to Newport.
We had decided if we didn’t take a tour of at least The Breakers we would be bummed. So, we arrived at The Breakers and paid for the tour. It is a self-lead tour listening to narration as you go through the Mansion. This is the first mansion built by the Vanderbilt family on the cliffs, well actually the second the first burnt to the ground, they rebuilt it out of stone and metal so it wouldn’t burn to the ground again.
The Breakers is now owned by the Newport Preservation Society who conducted the tours and manned the areas. The Vanderbilt family still vacations there however, that was part of the agreement they got to keep the third floor of the mansion and live there when they wanted too. Pretty good gig they got paid 400K for the property and still get to use it as a home and get everything paid for by the society and the funds from the tours.
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| Alcove fountain |
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| Dining hall |
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| Dining Hall |
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| Dining Hall |
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| Music room |
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| Music room |
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| Library |
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| Library |
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Master Bath tub in carved out
of one piece of Marble |
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Grand Staircase entry
into Grand Hall |
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| Grand Hall |
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| Tapestry |
The Breakers was awesome though and crazy to think that a family needed something that huge to live in, but I’m sure it pales in comparison to some of the new ones today. Still though what a house!
We finished the night off back in Dartmouth with dinner and early to bed. We did ask to be moved because the hotel was empty and the only people on the floor with us was of course next to us and still happily married. The new room was horrible!!!
Day 6 we hit the road by 4:30 am and were the airport by 5:30 waiting for our flight to Baltimore and then home. It was a fantastic vacation and adventure, all but the hotel. We saw almost everything we went to see and seen somethings we didn’t know we were going to see.
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