Our plan today is to ride the MBTA in to Boston and walk the Freedom Trail. We park our rental car at the North Beverly Station. We talk to locals getting ready to ride to work who say we can buy a ticket once we board the train.
Once on board a lady conductor asks where we are going, how many, round trip? She produces a ticket and ticket puncher and then, like the Conductor on the Polar Express, multi punches our ticket and hands it back to Gary.
Riding the train, we watch the road traffic in to Boston and are SO glad we took the train.
Upon arrival at the station we see an Information booth. We go there and ask the man about riding the subway to the Freedom Trail. Go buy your ticket. He says. We buy tickets for 2 and ask the lady at the window where we catch the subway for the Freedom Trail. Go ask Information. She says. We go back to the same window we went to originally an ask our question again. Just go outside and ask anybody. He says. They will tell you what you need to know. Pick pocketed in Boston by the Information Guy!
We go outside. The city is a-bustle with every type of character. Sports are big here and there are huge team signs for hockey and baseball. We start walking around and find a transit policeman who is watching traffic for a road repair that is going on. We ask him about riding the subway to the Freedom Trail. He is a little puzzled at first. Then the light goes off.
He points at the sidewalk across the street. See the red line on the street? Some times it is paint but it is usually brick. That is the key to walk the Freedom Trail. If you follow that line, you will find the buildings you are looking for.
We decide to walk toward the Constitution battleship site and museum. Yes, we are following the red brick line. There is a lady in a wheel chair on the Charlestown Bridge. She has a big DSLR camera and is hoping to get photos of the last tall ship as it leaves the harbor. She wheels along with us for a bit and we chat. There is a helicopter overhead hoping to get photos too. We miss the last ship as we follow the red line to the Constitution Museum. Tours for the Constitution don't start until 2 pm so we are out of luck there so we tour the museum. It is a fine museum with much hand's on stuff for kids, films and quizzes for adults.
At the home of Paul Revere the docent tell us that the wing back chair is also called a fireside chair. It is meant to be drawn close to the fire and the wings hold the heat close to the person sitting within. This reminded me of the beautiful wing back chairs Bill Mortensen made and are in John and Carolyn's home.
Once we finish that tour we walk back in to Boston, following the red bricks and find North Church and Paul Revere's house to tour through. These historical buildings are in the Little Italy section of Boston. I can tell you that the Italian Deli we stepped in to was delicious to the eyes. A little later we step in to a hole in the wall pizzeria and have a salad and a slice each.
The roads in this section of town are so narrow, built for carriages back in the 1600's
After lunch we head back to the terminal. Gary has a golf date with Ozzie and we want to be sure to catch the train out of Boston.
While Gary and Ozzie golf I get to visit with Sandy. One big question for every antique collector (or just collector) is how we are going to disperse our treasured collections. She has a good one.
We are planning on burgers and dogs at Conomo Point. When Gary and Ozzie get back from golf Gary is bleeding from several wounds on knee and elbow. It seems that golf is never to be played whilst wearing your bifocal lenses. And then cut his shin getting out of Ozzies truck. He is a mess.
We get him temporarily cleaned up for dinner. Heather and Bouy join us. Triston is ready to eat. After dinner we stay inside and talk story until it is time for us to drive back to the residence at the barn.
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