On our way out, we hiked through the Adirondacks. Gorgeous.
The first day in Boston metro, we visited Concord and Lexington. We saw Walden Pond, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Author's Ridge, the grave sites of Louisa May Alcott, Nathanial Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson), Minute Men National Park, The Old North Bridge (where the shot heard around the world was shot), the old Manse, The Hillside/Wayside House, Alcott's Orchard House, etc.
The second day, we hung out on Revere Beach. The waves were great for body surfing, and resembled root beer because of the large amounts of kelp in the water. Which was fairly disgusting. The Revere Beach Sand Castle Contest was going on and we saw some pretty fantastic sculptures.
We walked the Freedom Trail on the third day. We witnessed a reenactment of a musket shot and climbed the 294 stairs to the top of the Battle at Bunker Hill monument; we toured the Old North Church; Paul Revere's house; the old cemetery; and the USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides. Old Ironsides was arguably my favorite; I felt like I was in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie or I had gone back in time. The ship was majestic, intimidating, and elegant. Our tour guides were Navy officers in period dress. Made me want to join the Navy.
We also toured the Holocaust Memorial in downtown Boston, which was heart wrenching and extremely powerful. I definitely recommend it.
Mom and I decided to enter a downtown Boston market for some fresh peaches. We were...welcomed...by a true Bostonian couple. After he threw a few expletives at us and taught us how to package peaches so that we wouldn't be so stupid, the man told us to take our produce and get the H-E-double hockey sticks out of there. Mom and I felt our Boston experience was now complete.
On our way back to Fort Wayne, we made a few pit stops in Kirtland, OH and Palmyra, NY. Always a pleasure.
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