Holiday Inn Hotel Rockland

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Over the course of the next 17 months you can follow along as I work on planning my trip from Boston, Ma to Hyder, AK. All in all it should be about 10,000 miles in less than 30 days on two wheels with a group of friends that will become life long mates.

I plan to be riding my 1998 Honda Goldwing...

In My FootstepsChristopher Setterlund

Trip 18: Scituate, Mass.; Cohasset, Mass.; Hull, Mass.February 3, 2010


The coastal towns from the Cape Cod Canal up to Boston make up what is
called the ‘South Shore.’ Of all of these towns Plymouth is the most
well known being that it is the original landing spot ...

You all know by now that saying we are bursting with excitement is a near-laughable understatement. If you're anything like me -let's call it geographically challenged- you probably know that Thailand is in Asia somewhere. Thanks to the enclosed little map (click on Map Options then "Show trip route" for a better view), you can see that it is in...

As I made my way on this trip, I often thought that I should rate the hotels, flights, places, etc. Rather than rate them, I decided to highlight the best ones, as there were some really great highlights along the way. So here it is:


Best Hotel: Aesthetically, it was the InterContinental Bethlehem, which was formerly Jacir Palace....

Oh my word, it is hard to describe the cold that we faced on our return to Boston. The weatherman said it was -12C, but with the wind chill it felt closer to -15C! It was that kind of cold where it makes your body ache like a fever, and the air is painful to breath. But we were determined to get out there and explore a city that we had been told...

When we got to the D.C. airport we parted ways from our group for a bit while the 4 of us (Brenna, Carrie, Lauren, and I) made our way through customs and on to baggage claim. After gathering our several bags and wandering into the main airport we were like little kids in a candy store looking all around at the first starbucks we had seen in 4 m...

The Cape Escape My first day in Boston I went to Cale Cod with my hosts, Tom who I work with and his brother Luke. We got a zipcar and drove all the way up to Provincetown, or Ptown. Provincetown was where the conservative pilgrims landed the mayflower; and now is owned by the gays. There were gay flags, gay shops, and gay people, among the tour...

Our last visit to the city, we went to Café Pompe for breakfast in Little Italy. North end is largely residential and well-known for its small, authentic Italian restaurants. It was very Italian, the "mafia" in the adjoining room were having their daily meeting over espresso. After breakfast we made a stop to get some pastries from Mike's Pastry...

This is one of those years when my birthday falls exactly on Father's Day, so timed for a double celebration! the day started out kind of gloomy, overcast, and rainy, and I was feeling every one of my newly-acquired sixty years...kind of gloomy and overcast, myself! I think this was partially because it was five years ago this day that I spent ...

The morning began w/ Deanne making us a scrumtrulescent little breakfast and then a ride into downtown Boston. Deanne dropped us off at Faneuil Hall and then headed off to work for the morning, vowing to meet us for lunch around 1pm or so. Outside of Faneuil Hall we jumped onto the Freedom Trail and began our historical walking tour of Boston. O...