JUNE 23-25: BOSTON

We rested for the weekend doing food shopping, laundry and a spot of dry goods evaluation (shopping- a carryover from Plimoth-sorry:))

What can I say about Boston, in a nutshell it was very nice. Subways where fairly easy to decipher, the freedom trail was a nice bit of history with such items as Old North Church, Paul Revere's house and other significant places too numerous to mention. It's basically a 2 mile hike through town, the City is small in comparison to DC and NYC. The second day we went to view the USS Constitution, the first naval war vessel, over 200 years old and still floating. A very nice tribute to an old war horse, again the feeling was eerie while walking the decks of the ship that carried a young nation and blood was spilt over. There was a museum there also with a lot of hands on stuff, Sue actually enjoyed it and I visited with a model ship builder on the premises who gave me some insight as to where to find lighthouse models! 

The third day was spent touring old Fenway Baseball park, built in 1912, what an edifice. Compared to Yankee Stadium tour this one was great. Plenty of tales and I think our tour director was George Burns younger brother, very funny/corny jokes:) Then we caught another subway to "The Commons" (park in Old English terms) and did the Swan boat ride on the lake, another good experience. We met a young fellow (70ish) who had recently lived for the last 5 years about 10 miles from my Brother/Mother's house. the swan boat is peddle driven by a "captain" and cost 2.70 per ride, our friend remembered when it was a nickel (late 30's)!  Next was a walk about 4 blocks to the world famous 'Cheers" bar, where everyone knows your name......they didn't! We had a nice (expensive) lunch where I finally tasted the Boston baked beans, quite good, not too much molasses! Got me a beer mug for when i drink O'Douls at home plus they only had one type of NA beer, which was excellent and very well may be my next drink of choice, called Kaliber by Guinness. Boston was small enough we did short day trips, saw a lot and did not get worn out, all in all we will be back.