After the long ten hour day we spent on the New York City tour Millie and I decided a
change of pace was in order. We departed Florida,
New York and headed east to Connecticut. We decided to avoid the normal
tourist spots along I-95 and do something different. There is a Textile Mill Museum
in Willimantic and we both thought that would be an interesting place to see. Unfortunately
we discovered it is only open on Friday and Saturday hopefully we will be able
to come back on Friday. We’re camped across the street from a small lake in a
very quiet campground and have been taking it easy.
On Thursday we moved south to the Mohegan Sun Casino which
is located just south of Norwich
Connecticut. We are parking lot
camped again, this time in a special lot at the casino for RV’s. There are no amenities’,
it’s just a parking lot, but it’s free.
Millie and I took the shuttle bus to the casino and walked the
large spread out complex. There are many interesting architectural designs in
the connecting passages between the gaming rooms; most of it is very well
thought out with Native American or nature themes. There are many restaurants
and entertainment venues within the casino, some are common franchises like
Johnny Rockets, some new to us e.g. Vigil’s Real New York City BBQ (New York City
BBQ?) and a few with names of
personalities like Michael Jordan and Bobby Flay. Sorry no reviews, we didn’t
eat in any of them.
We watched part of a dance completion at the casino
convention center in the afternoon; the competitors were all young kids from
private dance studios. They performed in choreographed group routines and some
were quite good. In the evening there was a concert by Bruno Mars, but it is
sold out. Neither of us are gamblers so we didn’t leave any money with the
Indians other than $7.39 for a bag of black licorice.
Across the Thames
River from the casino is what
appears as a very stately collection of brick buildings. Closer examination
with binoculars found them all in decrepit condition. Millie did an internet search
on her phone and discovered it is the abandoned remains of the Norwich Mental Hospital. Suddenly stately became
spooky, I’ll bet there are a few tortured souls lingering around those old
buildings. I don’t know if this will transcribe to the blog as a clickable
link, if not you can copy and paste to see an interesting and well done video
about the hospital,
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