Yesterday was one of those days that began early and ended late, and not due to horrible costume malfunctions or a blurred evening full of 'black outs' and booze. Indeed, there was a beer or two present throughout the adventures of my Bostonian Halloween, but the walking and organist jam session overshadowed any underlying desire to be drunk along the streets of Beacon Hill. My introduction began as many do when visiting a new city: the subway/metro. Though there was an insistence that Boston's Orange Line was the "worst and most disgusting" transit route in the metro system, I would like [View Full Entry]

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I have officially been awake for over 5 hours. It's 9:07 am (EST), and I'm on the second leg of my journey northward to city of the Sox (aka, Boston for those not familiar with MLB lingo). It's been such a long day so far, though surprisingly the experience of combating airport security, finding the right gate, checking luggage, and transferring to my final flight has gone through without a hitch thus far. I say "thus far" because I don't want to jinx myself and end up in Minnesota. It was dark when my flight from TPA to ATL left at [View Full Entry]

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I'm sorry that some of you haven't been receiving my blogs - I don't know why but I remember when Ollie went round the world with his friends the same thing happened to me when I was on the receiving end. Today Marsha drove me to Portland, Maine to meet up with my 3rd cousin, Heather. We had never met before. It was great, we had lunch on a restaurant boat in the harbour - lobster of course! Tomorrow I will sadly be leaving Marsha and Mike and will not see them again until they come to Cornwall. Marsha is taking [View Full Entry]

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Hi Evveryone Apologies for being so quiet...I've been off line for a few days as each place I've visited has different connection problems. I had a phone call from Marsha while at the Red Roof Inn..."why don't you come tomorrow?" As it happened Red Roof was a problem, they wanted me to pay for WiFi, they hadn't made my bed at 4pm in the afternoon, if I hadn't looked for the housekeeper I doubt they would have made it then. There were no towels, I never got any soap or shampoo, there were no soft drinks in the drinks dispenser on [View Full Entry]

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Painting the town ... orange It's been a varied couple of weeks. Only one constant: the endless stream of bright orange pumpkins found on every street, in every front yard, in every store front. Rather than mourning the end of summer, America appears to be basking in the rich hues of autumn with pumpkins, chrysanthemums and wreaths adorning doorsteps like ornaments on the Christmas tree. Throw in some (okay, a few hundred thousand) trees with their turning leaves, and it's a pretty magical place to be. :-) So, about two weeks ago I found myself sat in a Jersey motel in [View Full Entry]

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Well bloggers I arrived in Boston yesterday and took a rest, I think I needed it, I'd forgotten that I'm not 21!!!! Today I took a taxi to "Wonderland" - don't know why it's called that, it's a train station. Then a train into "The Aquarium"...that's another station! At least they were easy to remember and far easier than Manhattan or Brooklyn. I then had a scrumptious lunch in an Irish bar served by a young Irish girl...it was lobster! I still can't understand why everything has to be served with bread, needless to say I didn't eat the bread, they [View Full Entry]

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October marks the Cranberry Harvest season in Massachusetts, the world's second largest producer of Cranberries! Cranberries are harvested in a rather unique way. A cranberry field is flooded with water leading to the creation of a cranberry bog! The cranberries then float up on top of the water surface and can be collected. Thus, it is a rather interesting sight to watch. The largest cranberry producer in MA, AD Makepeace and company has an annual harvest festival which we decided to visit .. We decided to end the day with a trip to the charming town of Sandwich. This town has [View Full Entry]

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New England coast of the United States, Hello to all, Since we last posted, we have travelled further along the eastern US seaboard stopping in a couple places along the way. We had to sit out some poor weather in Portland ME, where an overnight transiting dockage turned out to be a week at the dock. We stayed in a really nice marina called Spring Point and the dock master there, Ian, was a really nice guy. Most surrounding marinas in the area charge between $2.50-$3.25 per linear foot of vessel, but since it was off season, Ian only charged [View Full Entry]

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Today was the last day of our New England trip. We left Boothbay Harbor early to ensure we would be able to fit in a stop in Salem to visit some of the witch related attractions. There definitely was not enough time spent here in Maine to fully appreciate it all. In all, we were probably only in the state less than 24 hours! Before leaving, we stopped by the harbor to take a few photos but the bone chilling cold of the morning forced the stop to be a rather quick one. Driving down the Maine turnpike and into New [View Full Entry]

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This entry is of the Topsfield Fair Flower Show entry day three. [View Full Entry]

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