1997 East Coast Trip (part 9)

Salem, Massachusetts, this is the side of the Pirate Museum building.  How I would have enjoyed wandering around in there!

But when you're traveling with someone else,
you tend to ... compromise on what you're
going to see.

Here I am in Salem,
a store has a
standing advertisement!

This was a fun section of town to explore!

and of course, the infamous Plymouth Rock
where Pilgrims from the Mayflower rowed
out and set foot on land in 1621.

In Boston, we trekked the Freedom Trail and saw some of the old buildings along the way, like the Paul Revere house, I seem to remember something about Betsy Ross.  There are markers implanted in the sidewalks to denote the trail.  As I look back, I'm shocked at how I wasn't taking pictures as it is something I have always done.   I think that speaks to the relationship stresses I was feeling, perhaps subconsciously not wanting to remember this trip.

This is the Minute Man statue 

in Massachusetts.

"British regulars clashed with colonial militia and minute men on April 19, 1775 

at Lexington, Concord's North Bridge and on the long, bloody road back to Boston. 

The fighting that began that day soon grew into a war for independence 

that lasted more than eight years. Many years later, Ralph Waldo Emerson 

used the phrase "the shot heard round the world" to describe the significance of this event."