Update - Bahston is Wicked Good

[luckycanuck]

The trip to Boston was pretty uneventful aside from a group of brotards who wanted to get on in Burlington, Vermont.  They had been drinking and their 2:00am attempts to join us on the bus south were denied.

We arrived on schedule and I got more rest than I expected (and did pushups in two states along the way.)  Before long I was out on the street to take on Boston.

My first stop was the Samuel Adams Brewery.  It's tough for me to pass up a brewery tour and this was quite good, though the visit to the tasting room meant I wound up drunk by noon.

Then it was back into town where pushups were done at the exterior location where Cheers was filmed.  Then Boston Common, then Paul Revere's House where I also had a wonderful (and huge) cannoli in what is now Boston's Italian neighbourhood.

A highlight of the day was my trip to the USS Constitution.  For one thing, I did marine pushups on the oldest active commissioned warship in the world, and the tour of the ship was given by a Navy Petty Officer who presented the whole thing very well with plenty of gusto and theatrics.




I wound up walking further, all the way to Harvard.  They say "yah kahnt pahk yah kah in Harvahd yahd" and they are right, though you can do pushups.  Alas, they didn't set me up to do a PhD on a pushup scholarship.

Finally I made it across to Fenway Park where the Red Sox were playing.  I briefly considered buying tickets from a scalper but felt uneasy with the idea.  At any rater, I was knackered from getting limited sleep the night before and walking what I now estimate to be about 11 miles across Boston fuelled by New England Clam Chowdah and a couple of local beers.

I slept well last night.

Comments

[bakerypenguin.livejournal.com]

Old naval ships and chowder. Sounds like an awesome combination to me!

[luckycanuck.livejournal.com]

No! It's chowdah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MlYKMFl_A

I'm impressed

[jaqisthename.livejournal.com]

Walking all over Boston is no easy task. Boston isn't like NYC where everything is compact and its easy to walk 20,30,40 blocks. I also walked from Harvard to Boston and it was LOOOOOONG. Cheers!

Re: I'm impressed

[luckycanuck.livejournal.com]

It would have been far more sensible to take the MBTA, but that would have required me to suppress my natural stubbornness.

[cheez-ball.livejournal.com]

Love the pushups pict. :-) And I'm jealous of the chowder. The only chowder we get here is the stuff I make myself.

[luckycanuck.livejournal.com]

I never get chowder in Australia so I was going to capitalise on the easy availability of it.

[yurusumaji.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a badass day. I love touring historical places/sights/etc. And everyone is smiling at you as you do push-ups.

[luckycanuck.livejournal.com]

Yes I do get amused reactions.

At these particular historic places, it would have been an odd place to be British I think. Since the Brits are cast as villains of sorts. I tend to take a fairly positive view of the Brits and you would come away thinking that they are on par with a paragon of fascist oppression.

[doxedeed.livejournal.com]

Plain and simple! I like your work!