We drove a slightly roundabout route from Danbury to the Burkhard’s, taking us through picturesque countryside around Derby, where we stopped for lunch at Apollo Pizza, which we can recommend: good food, generous portions, reasonable prices and friendly service. We also drove through New Haven, home of Yale University.
We also stopped on the Atlantic coast so that I could rightly claim to have stood on the eastern and western shores of the US in one trip. The contrast with Lake Erie is interesting, and slightly paradoxical: here, we stood on Long Island Sound, looking across the water to Long Island, which makes it feel like a large lake; at Lake Erie, we could not see the opposite shore, so it felt like the ocean!