FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip ~ Naval Submarine Base New London ~ 12 February, 2008

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: New London Submarine Base

Naval Submarine Base New London is the Navy's first Submarine Base and the "Home of the Submarine Force."

The main base occupies more than 687 acres. It is also home to more than 530 acres of family housing, 17 attack submarines, and the Navy's nuclear research deep submersible NR-1.

History and More Information!

Groton, Connecticut is also home to the U. S. Navy Submarine Force Museum, and the USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571)

Visit the Museum Here!

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Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

[TASMANIANRED]

Mr. B is worth losing sleep over but I hate you have to get up early on a work day.

[mylife]

Woot!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks, my!
Something is wrong with the tranny!
see these? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
LOL
If money could talk it would say goodbye!
*sigh*

[TASMANIANRED]

You must have missed more than the punch line.

Not messing with you. Really.

[TASMANIANRED]

Some folks never learn...

[MS.BEHAVIN]

HEE hee!
;0)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Sand, for the history of the USS R-12 (SS-89)

[PROCON]

I am doing fine!!

(((HUGS))) back to ya!!

You have one cute baby!!

Forewarned!!, they become teenagers!!/LOL!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Ah well...
Such is life.
Mr B sure does alot for me..
It’s the least I can do!

[TASMANIANRED]

Rollie things don’t work well on carpet..

[TASMANIANRED]

After the green, green early summer....That’s awful.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, MM...((HUGS))...just put my boots on and going out to start my car and brush off whatever has accumulated. Gotta stop at the post office and drop a check. Be back when I get home.

[TASMANIANRED]

Big galoot..

Their enthusiasm is boundless.

[mylife]

Sigh...

Man, when it rains it pours, and in the dead of winter its freezing rain.

[STARWISE]

Beautiful tribute, lauren .. ;) You're in my neck of the woods, my old stomping grounds.

If you look up at the itty, bitty top just over the CT line, about in the middle, just to the left of "Longmeadow," is Agawam, MA .. my hometown. In the summer, the highways and curvy little country roads from there to the coast between eastern CT and western RI bear the echos of thousands of miles of my tire tracks and the beaches remember my hundreds of washed away footprints in the sand ... aah, sweet memories. I love that New England coast because I'm familiar with it, but really all New England shore areas are very delicious.

Down at the bottom is a place I dearly loved ..Black Point .. family rented cottages there when we were youngsters .. remember a couple of summer vacations, and the sense memory of the smell of a dark brown tanning brew, Amertan, tartan logo. I would know it if I smelled it today, but it's been off the market for decades. Isn't it weird how I can't remember what I did 3 mos. ago, but I remember those little trivial things like fragrances from my childhood?

A stone's throw away from New London, and strangely not shown on the maps, is the historic Mystic Seaport, a really neat and quaint place.

Looks like it could be in Maine, eh .. Ms B .. ?

Across the channel from Naval installation in New London, is Groton, regularly used interchangeably with New London, which is how its official website identifies it, as the home of the US Navy's sub base, but Groton is also connected with the business of New London as that's where Electric Boat, manufacturer/shipbuilder of the subs has a major shipbuilding location, still employing thousands in the area (though there have been thousands cut from their workforce).

And, of course, there's the Coast Guard Academy, also in New London, training home of our great Coasties.

We spent a couple of summer vacations in cottages at the Cape in MA, but my fondest memories of the beaches of my childhood and young adulthood are in CT and RI .. and all place I know I wouldn't even recognized today:

Connecticut

Black Point Beach Club, Niantic

Hammonasett Beach, Madison

Rocky Neck Beach, East Lyme

And of dozens of dozens of carefree, frolicking days and nights, Misquamicut Beach, Westerly, RI

And my hangout, nearly every summer weekend, The Andrea Hotel at Misquamicut Beach .. a hole in the wall then that's NOTHING like it is today ... but ooooh, the memories . . ;)

Thanks so much, lauren, for the chance to remember many happy days.

[mylife]

Big shambling galoot!

[TASMANIANRED]

It’s only 1 day...

Too bad you can’t bank sleep ...

I’d for sure be overdrawn.

[BIGLOOK]

Back in November there was a tourist from Michigan who drove up the the Visitor's Center on Mauna Kea. He was warned not to travel up any farther but did it anyway. Said he wanted to go hiking. It snowed and the temps dropped fast to below 20. Never heard from him again.

There's more to this story than the apparent facts.

[fatima]

Thanks PROCON,some of our grandchildren.I got married as a teenager.Bad to the bone:)

[TASMANIANRED]

Safe trip.