I live on the north end of Mount Hope Bay on the Mass./RI border, very near the sight where the King Phillip Indian Wars started in the mid 1600's. From my house can see the hill where King Phillip (Metacomet) was captured and killed.

Lizzie Borden's summer home is just down the street from my house.

Dighton Rock is on one of my bike routes...it has ancient hyroglyphics (sp.?) etched into it, and nobody knows if it was cave men, Indians, or Vikings who did it.

I like to ride around in Little Compton, RI, where the Rhode Island Red chicken came into being (there's a bit of a feud between 2 families as to who owns the bragging rights!).

I also like to ride in Newport, RI where the America's Cup USED to be! It's fun to ride by the summer "cottages" of the Vanderbilts and other "robber barons"...oh, and that's where Sunny Von Bulow O.D.'d on insulin and where socialite Doris Duke kept her llamas...and former RI governor Sundelin once shot at racoons out the back window of his mansion...it's a quiet town...

Nearby Bristol, RI has the oldest continuously held 4th of July Parade in the Country...and is the start/end of the East Bay Bike Path, which runs all the way to East Providence...14 miles...very pretty and flat...

Nearby New Bedford...that's where Herman Melville wrote Moby ****...now it's the fishing capital of the country...and where you can get the fast ferry to beautiful Martha's Vineyard, where John Belushi is buried...

And you thought New England was all about Boston and Plymouth Rock!