Boston

12th - 15th October, 2010

We took the Amtrak train from New York to Boston. It was a relaxing ride along the coastlines of Connecticut and Rhode Island before entering into Massachusetts. We stayed in a hotel that was literally right next door to Fenway Park, home of the Boston Redsox baseball team.

Fenway Park

We decided to do another Duck tour, since the one in Seattle was so much fun, and Boston didn't disappoint either. The tour took us past sights such as Paul Revere's house and the site of the Boston Tea Party, MIT and also other local icons such as the State House with its gold-leaf dome and nearly all of the 115 Dunkin' Donut stores in the city!

Harvard University

We visited Harvard Univeristy, the oldest and probably most famous of all the American universities (across the river and technically in Cambridge). What an huge campus and we didn't envy the new students arriving for their first day and trying to find their way around. Saw some of the original old buildings as well as some amusing sights, including at least two Professors wearing bowties riding along through campus on their bicycles, coat-tails flying.

Here we said goodbye to Jo and Mike as they headed back to Kansas and their RV after an enjoyable time with them. We picked up our car (a Jeep this time and nowhere near as big as our previous Chevy) and headed north looking for those famed fall colours.