June 11—On the way to New Hampshire, I did make one more stop in Massachusetts. The Minute Man National Historic Site, the “official site” of the start of the American Revolution. I've always loved history and my interest in American history grows as I travel. I am amazed how the people from the cultivated, settled European nations not only crossed the wide, often dangerous, ocean and managed to make it in the wilderness they found here. Of course, many of them didn't make it—but those that did had more courage and stamina than I do! Imagine what the British soldiers, used to cultivated fields, thought when they faced the thick woods and undergrowth that the colonists knew like the back of their hands. No wonder the British lost in the long run. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed
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