It was a little too breezy for a run, but walking up the esplanade proved most pleasant. However, the river is FRIGID! I did not jump in like the two girls on John Weeks bridge finishing their run, but I could still tell, ha. It does have a bit of trash but majority of the river's body appears clean. In general, Boston appears to be a great city for running, biking, and kayaking or rowing, at least in the summer. Not too many people that I've interacted with have had thick Boston accents, just with very specific words. Though along the river, we ran into a true Irish man who assumed by our freckled appearance (quite incorrectly) that we were current on UK and Ireland politics and expressed his elation of how Gordon Brown was evicted
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