Blogs from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 6

We left Provincetown to travel to Falmouth and another glorious sunny day. En route we decided to stop in Chatham, again on a peninsula - Chris likes places on peninsulas - go figure. Anyway the beach was stunning, albeit far too dangerous for swimming. You could feel the ferocity of mother nature, as the wind was very strong even on a beautiful day and the sea currents looked treacherous. The lovely houses perched precariously on the cliff edge looked desirable, until you heard one of the locals telling how the present day landscape was created only a couple of years ago compliments of a ferocious storm which left two cliff top houses at the bottom of the sea - maybe we won’t be rushing out to buy the uninterrupted sea view after all! Driving through the ... read more

Provincetown is located at the tip on Cape Cod. It is a charming little town that is extremely gay friendly - the first thing you will notice upon disembarking the Boston ferry and walking up the dock onto Commercial St. is all the rainbow flags. You will probably also notice before you even get off the ferry that there's an awful lot of gay people who love going to P-Town. But there are also a lot of antique stores and whatnot that cater to the old lady crowd, and there's lots of vacationing families too. We stayed at the Provincetown Inn, located at the very end of Commercial St. on the west side, about a 20 minute walk from the center of town. Although I loved how our motel was located in a quiet spot on ... read more

Again this summer my friend Sandy opened her Cape house in Harwichport to Karen and I for a week. It’s in a great location near the center of town and a few steps from the beach. Being July on Cape Cod everywhere you look blue hydrangeas are lush and in bloom. We might not like the rain much but plants are loving all the rain. As with most of the lost summer of 2009 we had one good day out of five. Wednesday was a beautiful beach day, we walked the few hundred feet from the house to the beach and got some rare sun and into our summer reads. My brother John stopped by and the two of us drove over to the A&W on route 28 in his MGB for the weekly Cruise Night. ... read more

TRAVELOGUE Wednesday, May 13, 2009 At Sea (Somewhere East of Cape Cod) Good morning everyone~ Tuesday evening - continued - Before we left Newport, Rhode Island last night at 11:00 p.m. and before we were off to dinner, we were treated to a beautiful sunset in Newport Harbor and a sailboat regatta, with probably a dozen or more sailboats turning and displaying their bright and colorful spinnaker sails in the light winds as they made their turns and headed back to their marinas. Rose Island Light Lighthouse was on one side with the massive expansion bridge in the background, and as the tide lowered, the water around the lighthouse became like thin glass and just glistened as if it were a mirror with the pinks and oranges of the sunset. Dinner was enjoyable, as usual, and ... read more

Since Cape Cod for me consists of biking, swimming, and a ton of laundry, I won't keep too many entries but I will leave behind a few thoughts. No matter which party you belong too, it felt pretty historic to see everyone glued to their tvs on the plane watching Obama. Fact: Obama's speeches are comforting during high turbulence. While going through security, I heard a six-year old kid say to his mother "I liked it before when we didn't have to take our shoes off at the airport." But I did arrive safely in Boston and headed for the Cape for some smoothed out times and lots of R and R. ... read more