a.m. temperature 52. Coolest morning in three weeks, but it soon warmed up to mid 70's.
Leaving our campsite this morning near the New Hampshire border north of Boston, I coded the TomTom GPS to get us around the city and out to Brewster on Cape Cod. The recommended route didn't follow the old Route 128 ring or the outer I 495 ring. It showed a route right through the middle of the city. That had to be wrong. I did the same exercise with Google Maps and got the same answer. What do I know? If I'm so smart, why ask? So we went witht the program. All I can report is that Boston got something for its billions spent on the Big Dig tunnel. We breezed through the city almost without slowing down at all.
Shortly after noon we were at the campground where we have reserved the next three days. Brewster is where S attended boarding school and also summer camp for several years. She's anxious to see the school, now a B&B, and a couple of other places she remembers enjoying.
After lunch we dressed out and got on the bike to explore the area. We'll leave visiting old haunts for the next two days. We checked out Long Pond in mid-cape, which has a good spot where we can launch the canoe, and we followed a paved rail-to-trail which crossed to the ocean side of the cape and NW to Chatham. Back the same way, total 30 miles. Good ride. That left us enough time to wash up and dress for church, a little chapel only 2 miles away. This is their last Sunday for the season, but there's a parent parish only 5 miles south.
After we leave Cape Cod we're hoping to visit the Adams (both) historical site south of Boston, but they have a parking garage which may not have the 9' clearance we need. Will have to check about that before we commit.
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