Blogs from Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, North America

Plymouth is on the agenda for today. Brooke and I went for a ride to check on the graves of my grandparents and family members in St Joseph's Cemetery. It's nice to know the names of your ancestors. I remembered a few names from when I was younger, or I recognized the names of others from family stories. My grandfather died 2 weeks after I was born. I never got to meet him, of which I am sad. My Nonee lived to a ripe old age and she was in my life for over 35 years. Her family lost a few members to the Spanish Flu, in the pandemic of 1918 and they are buried here. We drove next to Plymouth Rock and the waterfront where I have visited since a young child. The Mayflower replica ... read more

Plymouth Plantation, Plymouth Rock, Crist Mill.... read more

The tide is rolling into Cape Cod Bay as we head out of Scituate harbor and it continues rolling us all the way down the coast to Plymouth. We stop at the fuel dock for fifteen gallons of diesel before leaving Scituate. The outer entrance to Plymouth harbor is marked by Plymouth Light, high up on the hill on Gurnet Point. From there, you still have five miles to go before you get to the dock in Plymouth town. First, you head down the main (and only) entrance channel to a little pepper-pot lighthouse whose official and curious name is “Duxbury Pier”. From this point, you can head South to Plymouth or you can turn North into the enormous but very shallow Duxbury Bay. In the past, we have stayed several times in both places. Anchoring ... read more

21 July, 2013 On Friday we left Dexter, NY, and drove south then east past the Adirondacks and through the Mohawk Valley and into Massachusetts. We wandered some backroads in western Mass until we found our way to E. Otis, MA. On Saturday we drove around Springfield, MA, then south into Rhode Island and then out again before finally finding Sandy Pond Campground in Plymouth, MA. Only it isn’t. It isn’t in Plymouth, but 20 miles south. We have discovered that Massachusetts roads change names and numbers randomly. And some people who give directions don’t know north from south on a regular basis. By the way, Rhode Island was my 49th state, so whoo-hoo for me. We met some very nice people in the next campsite at Sandy Pond and they gave us very good directions ... read more

My relocation from Sandwich MA to Plymouth MA on June 19, 2012 held a brand new curve ball. I knew the trip would be one of the shortest campground to campground journeys of my “professional tourist” career, but was dumbfounded when MapQuest calculated the route from Peters Pond RV Resort (Sandwich) to Indianhead Resort (Plymouth) at only 12.39 miles. Scratching my head in bewilderment, MapQuest rescued me from the threshold of a rubber room. To reach downtown Plymouth from Indianhead Resort, I would have to travel an additional 13.94 miles! It literally took longer on each end of the trip to make ready my travel trailer than it did to traverse the route. After set-up, my Pilgrim (the brand of my travel trailer) felt right at home in Plymouth. Wednesday found me venturing back toward the ... read more