MIT & Harvard Campuses

MIT is the kind of school Pedro is interested in.

Boston After a Snowfall

When I went to school here, I hardly ever made it into the city of Boston, but when I did, it often looked like this.

Cambridge Graffiti Alley

On my very last day on the East Coast in May (you thought I would never get to the end of this journey, huh?), my plane left in the afternoon so we had the morning to explore. We walked from our downtown Boston hotel to a bakery and one of us spotted a travel trailer […]

Gillette Stadium & Fenway Park

They are two venues well-known to New England sports fans. I lived in Vermont in the 1990s and picked up the New England Patriots as my team. Rather than try to make a connection with a California team when I moved there next, I just stayed with the Patriots. In 2003 I moved to the […]

Two days of friends

We scheduled two days for us to do solo stuff.

Boston Vortex and Freedom Trail

We found out there is a vortex in downtown Boston, right in front of King’s Chapel. It took us all day long to realize this phenomena was specific to the intersection of Tremont ST, Beacon ST, and School ST. King’s Chapel was originally an Anglican church attended by Royalists (supporters of the British King), but […]

High Rock Tower and Pawsox fireworks

On our way out of Salem we made a fun stop in Lynn, Massachusetts, to climb up the hill at High Rock Tower Park. The tower is tucked into a densely populated residential area, and the approach that we used has no parking area (we found street parking). There are no informational or directional signs, […]

A taste of Massachusetts

It was fun for me to soak up New England and remember the things I love about it.

Too long away from Boston

My friends have been begging for a visit since 2008.