The Big Dig Boston

... Boston. Rented a car to return there as Patty will pick us up upon our return. There was an accident on the Mass pike and the "big dig" in Boston is down to one lane. We arrived at the car return at 5:15 and our flight was at 6:55. Of course the shuttle ...

... in Back Bay for a few blocks, then took the T to Haymarket, and walked around some of the new park area from the Big Dig. (It's... really ugly, c'monnnn, you can do better than that!) THEN, I decided to take a scenic, winding route through the ...

Drove through Maine, New Hampshire into Boston, MA. What a crazy City. All one ways with underground freeways, the big dig is the latest construction zone. I stayed and partied the night at Quincy Market and walked down to the original bar that ...

... brains, your shoes full of feet...."). Surprise! I spot Seattle's Best Coffee, all my coffee-drinking haunts are here!   The Big Dig construction spot, Future Site of Fountain, says a sign. Worth its wait, says another. I head for the waterfront, ...

... traffic.  It took us another 90 minutes to make it to our hotel.  At one point GPS had me travel through the 'Big Dig' tunnel and over a bridge into Chelsea before I was able to back track into Boston.  A little flustered and frustrated I ...

... got a potted history of Boston and its part in shaping America. Bunker Hill, Paul Revere, the Tea Party, Samuel Adams and the 'Big Dig' - that's a more modern story. We did pass the cemetery on The Commons where our driver told us that the inventor of ...

... looked like a nice city, apart from the massive amount of construction work going on. This is part of something called the Big Dig, which is a huge scale development that is intended to revolutionise Boston. Apparently when it's finished it's going to be ...

... trip on the water driving past the downtown Boston sky line and having a great look at the Leonard P Zakim bridge, the darling of the Big Dig and coincidentally the widest cable stayed bridge in the world. From our vantage on top of the Ferry we can ...

... past 16 significant landmarks which played major roles in the years leading to the American Revolution and the early years of the United States. We walk north to pick up the Public Garden, then walk across it, over the bridge on the lake which has Swan ...