Plugging in before you board
Look on Airportplugs.com for where you can charge or use electronic devices before or after your flight. This expanding new website provides information on where you can find wall sockets in the Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Portland and Medford, Ore., airports. Choose the airport, the area (terminals, ticketing, or baggage claim), and then the spot (a boarding gate, restaurant, or corridor), and you will see a photo of this area with arrows pointing to the location of wall sockets. Try your hand finding the plugs at McCarran Airport’s Concourse D, Gate 19. 541-734-8575, www.airportplugs.com
Tour Newport homes
Wander through a magnificent stone house once owned by actor Nicholas Cage, and five other private homes in Newport and Middletown, R.I., during the 2012 Neighborhoods of Newport House Tour, April 29. Gray Craig, Cage’s former home, has a grand curving staircase in the marble-floor entryway, a bookcase-lined private library, and a helicopter pad. Chepstow, an 1860-61 Italianate villa that will open for its first-ever public tour, contains significant furniture, paintings, and decorative arts collected by the Morris family, whose American roots date to the mid-1600s. Tickets: $35 if purchased by April 27, $40 thereafter. 401-849-5970, ext. 359, www.newporthousetour.com
Arrrrrr you on board? Sail off Cape Ann aboard the Northeast’s only traditional square-rigged tall ship, Formidable. This “pirate ship” takes passengers on a 90-minute tour out of Rockport, Mass., that features sea shanties and tales of patriots, pirates, and privateers. Kick back and enjoy the scenery and entertainment as crew members hoist the sails and portray maritime life during the Colonial days. Daily tours May through October. Tickets: $37.50 adult, $32 age 62 and older and students, $25 children to age 15; free under 2. The Formidable also will join Old Ironsides during Operation Sail & Tall Ships Boston, June 30-July 5, to commemorate the War of 1812. 978-729-2929, www.pirateshipcharters.com
