Beach & King Street Inn
Travel Blogs from Rockport
Who wants to eat North Atlantic LOBSTER
... as there is no signage and when we venture down a road, we end up in someone's private driveway. We even ended up in private beaches. Summer ends officially on 15th September so people are trying to drag the last few days out of summer. Driving around we realised it has a huge number of summer residences and resorts. Cape Ann is a serene place but in winter it would be freezing with the cold winds from the North ...
AZ and MA--planes, earthquakes and hurricanes!
... to great niece Jenni. Hers has died and this one is not new- has Vista on it, but will last her for a while giving her time to save for a newer one.
August 11-Thur- I bought a new skirt yesterday- I just loved it and had to buy it--now I can’t find anything that looks ‘just right’with it! Started a pile on the spare bed of things to pack for Boston-cleaned a bit around the house-talked to Phil and to Red. At 4:30 Red and I went to Midwestern Meats ...
Taverns, Cannolis, and Cheating Death
... like a good time to correct a wrong and put the world back on its correct axis. The last word I heard from Pat on the subject was, “wicked good”.
Wednesday it was back in the car for the first time since Saturday. We drove out to Lexington and Concord to retrace the steps of the first days of our country’s birth. The trip was worth it in spite of dealing with Boston drivers. One of our tour guides said using a ...
Salem on Hallowe'en: Witch and Kitsch
... tour, I headed over to the Nathanial Hawthorne house (and House of Seven Gables), where they took advantage of Halloween night to stage half hour actor reenactments in the house. Each room had an actor in period dress playing the part of someone involved in the Witch trails--except for the first room where we met Nathaniel Hawthorne himself. We met John Hathorne, an accused woman in jail, three bewitched girls and the repentant Ann Putnam. Though rather melodramatic ...
Back to Boston
... a warm and sunny day and a good beach day and I will miss that. I did last minute packing, had breakfast and talked for a bit. Took my stuff downstairs a bit before 9 and the limo arrived and I was off. It was hard getting through security, not the long line but I got pulled off for a through search-x-rayed and felt down! The guy in front of me had a stack of money in his pocket that was over 1 inch high! They were doing him very thoroughly! and since I was behind him just had to ...