Left Corre at 7:00AM. Took the subway to Manhattan. Our last climb in and out of the subways of New York (much harder when hauling luggage). Stood in the rain before catching the Boltbus at 8:30. No time for a real breakfast. Had a quick cup of coffee and a power bar before being subjected to no leg room in a bus for 4 hours. Of course, a crazy, rude New Jersey type woman and her husband got on the bus late and she immediately got hysterical because only single seats were available and she insisted on sitting with her husband. She actually said out loud "I can't sit by these strangers, I have to get off the bus now". She asked the guy in front of us to move to some other seat so she and her husband could sit together. He said no. They ended up sitting across the aisle from each other, right in front of us, and she whined until we got out of Manhattan. They strung headphone cables across the aisle so she could listen to a movie across the aisle. Anyone needing to go to the bathroom in the bus had to step over their cables. Talk about a real pair of losers.
4 1/2 hours later we got to Boston. It seemed like 10. We took a subway to a suburb of Boston called Braintree. We stayed at a Sheraton hotel. Stupidly I assumed that a hotel as supposedly swank as a Sheraton would have free wifi. Wrong. Tightwads charge $4.75 an hour for the privilege of using their wired network. Talk about lame. The simple cabin we had in Kittery Maine had decent free wifi. We had hoped to get the blog finished that night. And then it was mission impossible to find a place with free wifi. We took a 1/2 hour subway ride back to Boston and finally found a Borders book store in downtown Boston and started working on the blog there only to find that I couldn't update anything. Sheesh. We ate dinner in Faneiul Hall, a historic old hall that now houses a lot of interesting food stalls that serve restaurant quality food. Had the best clam chowder we have probably ever had. We walked and walked after dinner, seeing as many historic sites as possible.
It was raining hard that night but luckily it wasn't cold. The weather during our entire trip turned out to be very nice.
Took the 1/2 hour subway back to the hotel and crashed and burned for the night.
Observations made during our trip:
Boston subways are much cleaner than New York subways but New York people are much more interesting and much more willing to help a stranger in town.
There are as many Dunkin Donut shops in every town in New England as there are Starbuck stores in Seattle. They are everywhere.
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