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Salem Foot Tour: Part Two
Nov. 14th, 2009 12:36 pmOMG, you guys, this was so much easier than it normally is. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN TO MY BENEFACTOR.
Motor Tour: Route 3 -- Part Two
Oct. 7th, 2009 09:50 pm
Billerica. 20.8 miles into the tour. The book describes it as “an agricultural village.” Okay, it does have pretty spots:
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Motor Tour: Route 3 -- Part One
Oct. 5th, 2009 09:35 pmOn Saturday![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
bscotchpuma had a midterm exam to take, soarctacuda was looking to get out of the house. My first suggestion was that we do a walking tour, but it was raining, so I re-examined. It’s that time of year when people who didn’t grow up here get very excited about the trees changing color, so I thought maybe we could take a drive up north and go leaf-peeping, in keeping with my resolution to be more like a tourist in the place where I live. At first, we considered stalking Michael Sheen in Maine, but then I remembered that the 1937 book has driving tours of major Massachusetts roads. So we settled on the tour of Route 3, from Boston to Concord, New Hampshire. The tour was 36.1 miles. I glanced at it and estimated it would take us a couple of hours. SIX HOURS LATER WE FINALLY GOT TO NEW HAMPSHIRE. NOT EVEN CONCORD, JUST THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER. But it was worth every second, because, my God, it was an Adventure of Enormous Amounts of Fun, which I am going to share with you lucky people.
( AN ADVENTURE SO ENORMOUS IT NEEDS TWO ENTRIES )
Motor Tour: Cambridge
Sep. 30th, 2009 11:04 pmLocal College Friend and I were going to do a walking tour together on Sunday. But it rained. So, with a little think-on-our-feet-ness, I bring you: The First 1937 Motor Tour To Be Done. I can already tell these are going to be adventures! Also, excuse my very, er, artistic photos. I will hopefully get better at the Motor Tour adventures!
I finished up the Old City tour with the North End portion, in the middle of a weekend in which I mostly did nothing else other than work. I had never spent much time in the North End before, other than darting in for a meal or two here and there. It has a reputation for being a tourist magnet, and so I’ve tended to stay away. However, I found it quite delightful. I got a gorgeous day, perfect for wandering, and enjoyed myself the most so far of any of the foot tours.
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Foot Tour 2 was two miles through what the book called “The Old City.” Nowadays, we call it the Financial District and the North End. I foolishly had not thought to charge my camera before embarking on the Foot Tour, and it died while I was on City Hall Plaza, which was actually perfect timing, because that was basically the conclusion of the Financial District part of the tour.
The Financial District is where I work, and it may surprise everyone to know that I don’t like my job, so I found this tour dull and icky and underwhelming and slightly stress-inducing. I think that was not just because I work here (okay, maybe the stressed-out part was), but because it’s the area of the city that is most populated by modern buildings, so it’s not very attractive.
More from the Book of Awesome
Aug. 22nd, 2009 03:02 pmI am hoping to do Foot Tour No. 2 tomorrow, although I'll have to play it by ear. No one, including the meteorologists, seems to know whether or not it's going to rain here tomorrow. So I'll have to see what it's like when I wake up. Anyway, I finished my New Yorker and so started lugging the 1937 book back and forth to work with me, reading it on the T. So this means I have a few more gems to share with you.
( Delightful Excerpts Await You! )
( Delightful Excerpts Await You! )
Okay, apologies if you've already read this entry, and just skip it if you have, but LJ was being difficult, so I'm trying again. Here goes...
The book told me to go right on Embankment Road. Pretty sure it's now David G. Mugar Way.
The book told me to go right on Embankment Road. Pretty sure it's now David G. Mugar Way.
I have this to say: This foot tour is way too long. It's three miles, but Boston is hilly, and, by the end, the books had me going up and then down Beacon Hill in an endless zig-zag. These two areas of the city should have been separated out. So I will separate them out here, because it's just too much.
However, that aside, it was very fun to play tourist in my own city. I've walked through Copley Square hundreds of times and never bothered to go into Trinity Church. Today, that changed.
BOOK. OF. AWESOME.
Aug. 9th, 2009 07:55 pmOkay, so, now, what you've all been waiting for...
