Day 4 - Monday, August 7

We ate a small continental breakfast at the hotel, got gas at a Hess station, then got on the I-90 Thruway heading east. We stopped at a visitor information/service center on the thruway near Mohawk, NY for info and a snack and we picked up a flyer about a nice inexpensive resort hotel in Gloucester. We split a hot dog and nachos with cheese. I had a coke. Carol found a neat NY tee shirt at the gift shop for $10.00. Got into Massachussets and spent the rest of the day driving to Gloucester to the Ocean View Inn. Since we had forgotten to bring a tripod for the camera, we stopped in town and bought one at a little camera shop. The hotel was right on the Atlantic Ocean, and was built as a summer home for the Campbells of the Campbell Soup company. It became an inn in 1954. Our room was on the third floor, and you either went up three flights of steps or you could ride a tiny (I mean tiny) elevator. To use this elevator, you had to look through a small window in the door and press and hold a button to bring the elevator to your floor. When a red square on the metal elevator screen lined up with the little window, the door would open and you could get in. It was only about 3 feet wide and 4 feet deep – room for 2 people, or 1 person and a suitcase. It was quite a job unloading and getting to our room that way. The room had one king bed and old-fashioned furnishings. You could peek out a window and see the ocean. After settling in, we went down and took some pictures of the rocky shore. Then we drove around to the bay side of Gloucester and ate dinner at a small restaurant called “Passports”. Carol had a chicken cobb salad, and I had a chicken quesadilla. Tasty popovers came with our meals. We bought gas and water and ice and went back to the hotel. We went out for a ½ hour walk along the shore, and then asked for a 5:20 wake-up call so that we could be up and ready for sunrise pictures.