City Mouse: Yesterday morning we left our Yale friends and headed up the coast toward Cape Cod. We opted to take the more scenic Rt 1 vs taking the interstate. This took us through cool little seaside towns, such as Mystic, CT. We made an attempt to stop at our winery for the day, but quickly opted out (costs...tastes...strange pushy wine lady...). We made the decision on the way up the coast to stay in Cape Cod for th night before heading to Boston so we could explore the national seashore a bit. with the help of ETBFM we secure a camp site at Shawme-Crowell State Park, in Sandwich, MA (the oldest town in the cape). We hit a local farm market to grab goods to make dinner (which country mouse came up with the recipe on the fly, in the car), then headed out to see the cape. Everyone warned us about all the traffic from the vacationers for the weekend, but I didn't find it that bad. We drove all the way to Provincetown at the tip of the cape and back to Sandwich. with some little adventures inbetween.
we got back to the campsite (after dark again, but this time we had already set up the tent during daylight), and made our dinner. the fire didnt go so very well this time. I think the wood was a tad wet. it wouldnt burn. but we made it work. and it was delicious.
in the morning we enjoyed a cute and yummy breakfast (involving whipped cream made with sugar) at a little tea house in Sandwich and headed up to Boston. An easy drive, a little over an hour. Since I just wrote about our time in the country, I will have Country Mouse tell you about our time in the city today....
I would like to say that one of my favorite adventures on the way to the end of Cape Cod, was chasing the sun. I really wanted to see the sunset so we chased it down a road called Pleasant Point. . . we mostly missed it but it was a pretty anyway. We also found a dumpy cottage on a dead end road that was $749,000. Unbelievable.
We arrived safely in Boston at my friend Emily's who just moved here a little over two weeks ago. She is very nicely hosting us for the next two days. When you enter the city you go under it for a long time. It was pretty cool.
We navigated the T Train taking the Orange Line from Malden to State Street. I would be a fish out of water without my two pals to guide me around. We ate some Italian sausage from a street vendor because it smelled so darn good. We wandered the streets a bit and saw street singers, and people who act like statues and awesome architecture everywhere. We took the National Park Service's Freedom Trail tour with a very entertaining elderly chap who really liked Paul Revre and wore a ranger hat. He "had no vocal cords" so we all had to gather in close to hear his tales. I learned some history and saw a lot of interesting things around Boston. There were pastry stores that must have something special because the lines for them would extend half a block out of the store. There's a huge farmers market with a box of tomatoes for $5 and 8 peaches for $1. There's quite an interesting mixture of old and new, huge skyscrappers built from glass and then there in front is a much smaller brick building that looks like it's painted in, it looks so out of place.
We went through the Holocaust Memorial that's here in Boston. It's here because of all the history symbolizing freedom here, having to do with the Revolutionary War. It was pretty powerful. There were glass pillars inscripted with all the numbers of those who died in the concentration camps. As you walk through, steam would rise underneath you- like the gas in the gas chambers. There were quotes all along the way from survivors about things they saw. It makes you very thoughtful and quiet and I really about cried there in the middle of sunny Boston. And then on the other side of the street were all these people laughing and talking and eating at Irish pubs.
There is one section of Boston with 138 Italian restaurants. We went for seafood instead and City Mouse got her crab cakes (the one thing Nicole wanted to eat in Boston). We sat at the harbor for an hour watching skateboarders and models and boats and bride-to-bes.
Tonight, despite how much I love the outdoors and camping, its nice to be somewhere comfortable and safe. A car alarm went off in the middle of the night last night while we were camping, and for some reason I thought it was my car, although, I don't think I have a car alarm, and it made me super anxious that a person or a bear was going to attack us in the tent at any momment. It's just nice to not have to worry about that tonight.
Over and out.
see ya later,
History Mice
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