diff --git a/content/blog/2022/10/new-england/index.md b/content/blog/2022/10/new-england/index.md index 4f6cfe2..318c726 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022/10/new-england/index.md +++ b/content/blog/2022/10/new-england/index.md @@ -2,5 +2,63 @@ title: "New England" date: 2022-10-28T16:01:10-04:00 draft: true +categories: ["Travel"] +locations: + - Scituate, MA + - Boston, MA + - Massachusettes + - Portland, ME + - Maine + - United States +tags: + - Friends + - Family --- +For the second year in a row, a group of high school friends of mine have +planned a trip together for a week in October. Last year, I wrote about [our +trip to the Pacific Northwest][pnw]. This year, we decided on a trip to New +England, splitting our time between Boston and an AirBnb an hour up the Maine +coast from Portland. Our group is a bit different this year -- a couple people +couldn't make it, another joined for the first time, and happily {{< tess >}} +was able to come along too. + +## Scituate + +Tess and I left a few days before the trip started so we could travel down to +Scituate, her hometown, to visit her family and show me around her childhood +haunts. It's a charming coast New England town, full of history and [deep +connections to Ireland][ssiht] on account of its many Irish and Irish-descended +residents. + +{{< photo "2022/10/scituate-light" >}} + +## Boston + +The first part of the friends' trip was a few days in Boston. We stated in +Somerville and explored downtown Boston via the MBTA. We spent a full day +exploring the city on foot. Tess played tour guide for the other nine of us -- a +part (I think) she relishes and (I believe) does exceptionally well. We also +checked out the Isabella Stewart Garnder museum, a bizarre and fascinating +house-turned-museum, and the site of the highest-value unsolved heist in the +world. + +{{< photo "2022/10/gardner-museum" >}} + +Our second day in Boston, we took the ferry to Salem, MA. Salem is totally +overrun with tourists during October each year because of its history as the +site of the famous [Salem Witch Trials][salem-witch-trials]. We took the ferry +from Boston, visited the museum there and wandered around town for an afternoon. +It's a cute little town that really capitalizes on that witchy history. I +imagine the fulltime residents have a variety of feelings about how intense the +tourism gets this time of year. + +In Boston, we rented two cars and drove the ten of us north, through Portsmouth, +New Hampshire, and Freeport, Maine -- stopping at the L.L. Bean flagship store on +the way -- to a rental house on Casco Bay. + +## Maine + +[pnw]: {{< ref "blog/2021/10/pnw-reunion-trip" >}} +[ssiht]: https://ssirishtrail.org +[salem-witch-trials]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials