First order of business ... a bathroom. We saw a 'Public Toilet' close by where we would purchase our trolley tickets, so off we headed. It would cost .25 to go to the bathroom???!!! At least we got to choose the suitable position of the toilet bowl! LOL The trolley tour ticket agent saw us and told us it was out of order ... whew! We had a good chat and chuckle with him, bought our tickets and headed to the trolleys. We were directed to the bathroom in the Boston Marriott Long Wharf - much nicer facilities than the public toilet ... and we didn't have to pay .25!
Since we hadn't had internet in our room on West Yarmouth all week, we didn't yet have a place to stay Saturday and Sunday nights yet. We inquired how much it would be to stay at the Long Wharf ... it would be very convenient to what we would be wanting to do this last weekend. $534 a night! My quick math figured that out to be about 53.40 an hour since we probably would only be in the room about 10 hours a night. No thank you!
We headed back out to the trolley stop and boarded Mr. T's trolley. He would be our guide for the trip. Our trolley tour was most enjoyable with the main points of interest being ...
- Rose Kennedy's rose garden (104 roses were planted honoring her on her 104th birthday)
- Historic North End
- Paul Revere house
- Old North Church (One if by Land, Two if by Sea)
- USS Constitution (Old Iron Sides) and Charlestown Navy Yard
- Bunker Hill
- TD Garden (current contender in the Stanley Cup Playoffs)
- Historic Faneuil Hall
- Cheers (Where everybody knows your name!) The popular sitcom from the 80s.
- Copley Square
- Fenway Park
- MIT campus in Cambridge
After spending nearly two hours with Mr. T, who was a great narrator on the tour, we got off at Cheers on the 2nd trip around. We got a bite to eat at the restaurant upstairs and then we walked down the infamous stairs and through the big wooden door that many of us probably remember seeing on the show. Nobody knew our names though. :-(
We walked our way back, stopping and reading more about the history of the area and historic sights. Paul Revere is interred at the Granary Burial Ground (1660) as well as those from the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Several signers of the constitution including John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Paine, as well as several governors of the state of Massachusetts are also buried here.
King's Chapel Burial Ground also has many important people in the early history of our country.
It's getting late, so we'd better find a place to stay for the night. We headed south. We exited I-93 looking to score a late afternoon Dunkin Donut snack and to find a hotspot to connect and do some searching for a room. A Dunkin Donut store can be found about every two blocks in the cape and Boston area. Terry and I got a good chuckle out of that and it became a joke calling out a DD that one of us had spotted. Turns out that DD was founded in Quincy, a south Boston suburb ... hence why there are so many in that area. We only saw a handful of Starbucks there!
Terry ended up finding a Super8 in Manchester, New Hampshire, so we programmed Gabby and we were off. The room there was very nice and we enjoyed our stay. We had a pizza delivered and nodded off to sleep after a long day.
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