this may earn me a lecture...

so this past week i had a friend staying with me.

a friend who wanted to see all the historicity boston has to offer.

so i did some things for the first time:
the freedom trail (YES, i know. i am from boston. i have seen almost all of the things on the freedom trail separately, on their own. i have never, however, seen them while sticking religiously to the red line.) we actually only made it half way through because it was so frickin' cold and my friend was only in a fleece. i was frozen in my sleeping bag (coat) so it must have sucked for him.

*side note: i never get tired of looking at old gravestones. which i realized there are a LOT of in boston and surrounding areas. does this make me weird? in concord there's an old graveyard with a gravestone of a slave who bought his own freedom, written by an abolitionist lawyer. it's pretty interesting. google "john jack" and concord.

walden pond (YES, i know. i am a writer and an english major). did you know thoreau's little walden spot was only a half-hour walk from his parents' house? i bet he went home for laundry and dinner all the time. (just kidding, henry!)

the maine coastal route. to get to colby i usually just shot up 95, but we took this way up to freeport. there are pretty points, but it doesn't really hug the coastline the way route 1 in CA does, and it's kind of hard to follow (does a lot of twists and turns in small towns and i got lost, of course).

other things we saw (but weren't firsts for me): boston's north end, salem witch/wax museum, l.l. bean, emack & bolio's, my church.