We’re due in Victoria in a couple of hours so the main mission for me today is Verdi’s Pizzeria which has been unapproachable so far. As Yogi said, "Nobody goes there 'cause it’s too crowded".

GOT INTO VERDI’S for lunch today and it’s great. Trust me, as a 2nd generation Italian, I am not all that enamored with pizza in the American hinterlands (which in this context includes Connecticut) but this stuff is really good. PLEASE Princess, consider making Verdi’s a 24 hour location and flush that horror show upstairs on Deck 14. I’ll even pay for it after 10:00 PM and be very happy.

Victoria is a neat little city of 400,000 (in NY terms that’s 48th Street between Madison and Park Avenues). We’re only here for 5 hours under the Jones Act but that’s enough for me to determine I’m gonna return to visit by car on my own time.

We took the Ghosts and Graveyards tour in a 45 degree rain. The first hour is the graveyard where, of course, everyone is dead. About halfway through it, I wished I was too. Things got better in the second hour visiting a maritime museum and the old Fort Victoria courtroom which is supposedly haunted by the two Chief Justices of the Fort. I figured that if anyone could bring them out I could ( if only as a professional courtesy ) but no dice. I even stayed behind, alone in the Courtroom and sat on the bench thinking they’d at least throw something at me but the old buggers never showed. Oh well, maybe next time but I’m 0 for 3 on ghosts on this trip.