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Rhode Island

11:18 PM
58° Overcast Clouds
Sunset: 10:47 PM
Population
1,100,000
Route 1
57 miles

RI gave out the first speeding ticket in 1904, and cities today can set up their own speed limit enforcement cameras.

“The Ocean State”

RI is not an island in the ocean, but the smallest state in the US is a “Swamp Yankee” destination for yachting, quahogs, and shipwrecks. Nonetheless, landlubbers can explore the Newport Mansions, or discover the oldest carousel, schoolhouse, synagogue, military monument, circus, and Quonset hut in the land.

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