I’m running down the road tryin’ to loosen my load...

I’m running down the road tryin’ to loosen my load...

Rhode Island Iobstah. Mmmm. Yes, Virginia, we do take time off—and this is one of them.Due to the press of events since late February, I’d pretty much given up my annual late summer truck north to my ancestral home of sorts in Rhode Island. I’d lived in the Ocean State for only two years as a kid in the late 1950s, but I’d come back constantly over the decades to see my late sister and her family, who lived on there for another 40 years—until ye…