We went to Boston for about 30 hours. We just made the 9 am Chinatown bus, and after 4 hours of driving through beautiful New England, we arrived at the Boston Bus Terminal. We headed out on foot and spent the next, oh probably 7 hours walking around Beantown.
We headed up to the Boston Commons and wandered through the lovely park, and then started on the Freedom Trail- a painted red line that takes you by a lot of downtown Boston... its pretty cool because it takes you past a lot sights- the gold dome of the Boston State House, a graveyard where Sam Adams and some other patriots are buried, and the Quincy Markets- where we got a bowl of clam chowdah. We wandered to the Aquarium and looked out over the water then headed back to that red line. We saw some churches and old meeting houses and Paul Revere's House. It was a nice day, a great walk, and all the leaves were beautiful- just starting to turn yellow. We go a piece of Boston Cream Pie- from a pretty famous bakery (there was a huge line) called Mike's. We still hadn't figured out where to stay, and we could see the Marriot across the river, so we headed over and ended up getting an amazing apartment type room (with a living room and kitchen) on the 8th floor corner overlooking downtown Boston and the Charles River. After a bit of a rest, we went to see the USS Constitution, still following the Freedom Trail. Next we had to get some good seafood, so we went to the Barking Crab, which was a fun sort of tent like place on the water. The food was great and as we were eating a fireworks show started going on.
Boston State House
Fountain in Boston Commons
Sam Adams Grave
Old-looking important building
the hahbah
clam chowdah in Faneuil Market
Paul Revere's House!
The beautiful view of the Charles River from our apartment-like hotel room
Chris and boat
USS Constitution
The Barking Crab!! We sat along the river and a huge fireworks show went off while we were there...
We had to finish the Freedom Trail, so we walked up to Bunker Hill and then the billion steps up the monument to the top- it was a great view of the city. Next we headed over the the park along the Charles River and watched all the boats- mostly sailboats. From there we thought we could see the Harvard campus- ooh! We walked along the river for a while, then headed to Newbury Street where there was a lot of shopping and restaurants and got some sushi. We were pretty tired, so we decided to head back to NYC. Since it was Labor Day, the trip back took a few extra hours. It was sad because we could see the skyline and we were so close but it took like 2 more hours at that point. All in all a great introduction to Boston- I think we did a lot in the time we were there. Hopefully we'll be back soon.
