Blogs from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 14

Geo: 42.3585, -71.0596Weather 100% rain but warm Day started out rainy and continued to be rainy all day. It was warm though. So we put on our rain coats and enjoyed Bahston like all the other Bahstonians. Worked out great because we still had our second day on trolleys. Kept us dry and took us all over Boston. We had some interesting Trolley drivers today. One of them was an older gentleman. Not sure about the gentleman part. He was irritated when people in the back were talking in the back (which wasn't offensive to me) and asked them to stop 3 times and followed up with, "maybe the next war they will be on our side." (which was offensive) They were Middle Eastern. The next one was an odd guy who seemed distracted when talking ... read more

Geo: 42.3585, -71.0596Weather 75 and sunny and warm. We said goodbye to our little friend Katie and We left Harborfields Housekeeping Cottages satisfied with our visit and excited for our next adventure. Each time we stop, if feels like another vacation. We don't look back and we keep pushing forward. The weather has been glorious. I would recommend this trip to anyone. We are all having the time of our lives. We are destined for Boston tonight. We will be there for three nights... maybe. We are always open for a change of plans. The kids have been doing their State Books to learn about each place we are going and watching the movie about the location. We have them buy a postcard in each state, write something to themselves and send it from that state. ... read more

Leave it to Sally and I to pick the hottest day of the summer to take a day trip to Boston. The temperature in Boston on Friday the 19th of July was 100 degrees with a dewpoint of 75 degrees. Got up early Friday morning and drove to the home of our friends Jack and Janet O'Connor in Plymouth Mass. Jack and Janet's son, Ryan, had just come home early Thursday morning from a tour in Afghanistan. Welcome home Ryan!!! We drove to Quincy Massachusetts where we caught a ferry to Boston. The ride was about 35 minutes long and was the coolest part of the day. Arrived at long wharf about 10:30 am and begin our tour of Boston. The city of Boston was founded in 1630 by puritan colonists from England and it soon ... read more

With Betty programmed for the Visitors' Center in Concord, and with banjoes wailing as Mumford and Son promised to wait for us, we headed out of our hotel for Concord, site of the start of the American Revolution and nexus for the transcendentalist movement in literature. With many places closed at this relatively early time on Sunday morning, we started our visit with Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Buried there in are many of the early American literary luminaries, as well as Daniel Chester French, sculptor of both the Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and the Minuteman statue at the old North Bridge. Author Ridge holds the remains of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Thoreau, and Margaret Sidney. On April 19, 1775, the British in Boston decided that they needed ... read more

Geo: 42.3585, -71.0596As we had a very late night last night we slept in but the T line metro stopped right next to us. We got on and headed to the sea front. We had decided to try and get on a boat to go whale watching. We were in luck and there was a boat due to leave and after waiting in yet another queue in the baking sun we got on the boat. This was a long trip into the Atlantic Ocean and after about an hour we arrived at our spot. It was from here that we spotted her - a humpback whale called Nile. She was so beautiful and she was diving up and down into the sea. It was definitely a remarkable sight! After a time of following the whales movement ... read more