• Road Trips

    May 12, 2013: Day 3 – East Bound and Down

    Above is today’s trip map created using my Trimble Outdoors Navigator iPhone app. Click the link above for a bigger map. After my daughter’s change of plans, I decided to make a few contact to see if anyone could meet early Sunday, enabling Pat and me to freely travel the area later in the week, less scheduled. We started out from Danbury and headed back to Waterbury. At 9:00, I met my longtime friend Joann, and had loads of fun and laughs reminiscing: And more laughs visiting with my cousin Diana: And some good Margherita pizza at Bertucci’s: Aftermeeting with Diana, we decided to visit the PEZ Candy Museum. We…

  • Filming Locations

    Mystic Pizza Filming Locations

    This was probably the most fun we’ve had doing movie filming locations. I (Jennifer) grew up in Connecticut, in the west-central part of the state, but southeast Connecticut (especially Mystic) and the Rhode Island shoreline, have always been a special place to visit. I’d been going there ever since I was a teenager, and took my daughter when she was a little girl. I’m looking forward to taking my grandson some day! We’d had Mystic Pizza many times, and at the time when it was a tiny pizza parlor as it was in “Mystic Pizza.” After the movie came out, but prior to the restaurant’s expansion and renovation, I was…