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Newport – Day 5… a brewery/vineyard combo where we made a new friend.

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As our fifth day in glorious Newport, Rhode Island was drawing to a close… we made one final stop.

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Needing a bottle or two of regional wine to gift our pet sitting neighbor upon our return, we ducked into a local favorite.

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I can honestly say I’ve never visited a winery that’s also a brewery, but this place made it work.

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With multiple tasting rooms…

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And outdoors spaces…

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We browsed their large retail shop, purchased two bottles of wine for our neighbor and chuckled at this hard cider I know Mark would love.

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Making our way into the tasting room, we stood on line and ordered a flight.

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Which is when the men who stood beside us paid for it. Thanking my husband for his service and saying Semper Fi started a conversation with one of them which would last until the employees were locking the doors and we were the last people in the building. My husband’s money was no good and stories of the military flowed.

Turns out this fellow was a Commander who was in the Persian Gulf the same time as my husband and an instant friendship was formed.

I’ve been married to my guy for 41 years and have heard his stories so many times I could recite them myself, but there’s something about veterans getting together and talking about their experiences that resonates. It’s special. A brotherhood that civilians can never truly understand.

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Commemorating the meeting with a photo as I always do, our new friend asked me to text him a copy and shortly after we parted ways sent me this message.

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He included this old photo.

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And not that we needed one, but reuniting these two men will be an excellent excuse to visit Newport again.

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  3. Oh, that’s such a wonderful story, making new friends over beer and military service. You may know the stories front to back but they seem to bond over them in a way only military brothers know. As for the vineyard and brewery, yes please!!

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  8. That is such a sweet story. We meet people while traveling and think, “I’d love to be friends with them,” but it can be difficult to stay in touch when we live so far apart. However, we just said goodbye (or rather, au revoir) to a weeklong houseguests who was visiting from Quebec. We met him (and his wife, who couldn’t make the trip this time) while camping in Colorado several years ago. We’ve kept in touch and stayed friends. Such a rare but lovely thing when it happens.

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