I saw another glorious sunrise over the Atlantic, but we must move on. I promised myself this morning that I will have a trip that is mostly moving from one ocean beach to another - maybe the Oregon Coast. I don’t need to be able to swim, just walk on the shore and hear the waves.
We got a lot of advice about NOT driving IN Boston (treacherous tunnels and construction from the “Big Dig”), as well as advice about driving around Boston to our campground. So we headed off to Hingham, Massachusetts with some trepidation. In the end, despite the fact that New Englanders don’t seem to understand the concept of the merge, it wasn’t a bad drive. We took the second ring of freeway – I95 – and did just fine.
Now we are in Wompatuk State Park. This 7 square mile park was an ammunition depot during WWII and an Army camp during WWI. It is the nearest campground to Boston. We have lots of trees and quiet here with only a few other retired traveling folks as neighbors. It is very nice.
After getting settled, we drove around Hingham a bit and found dozens of houses on the National Historic register built in the 1700’s and 1800’s. Hingham was the 12th incorporated town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Old Ship Meeting House, built in 1660, is the oldest wooden church structure in continuous use in America. The houses are just huge – although most of them appear to have been built in stages with many additions. We followed winding narrow streets all leading to the bay. We could see the skyscrapers of Boston across the water. I don’t have a map of this area so we took a few wrong turns, but eventually found our way back to our campsite. We are on the Eastern edge of the Eastern time zone and it is pretty dark by 7:15.
We will take the ferry to Boston tomorrow.
We got a lot of advice about NOT driving IN Boston (treacherous tunnels and construction from the “Big Dig”), as well as advice about driving around Boston to our campground. So we headed off to Hingham, Massachusetts with some trepidation. In the end, despite the fact that New Englanders don’t seem to understand the concept of the merge, it wasn’t a bad drive. We took the second ring of freeway – I95 – and did just fine.
Now we are in Wompatuk State Park. This 7 square mile park was an ammunition depot during WWII and an Army camp during WWI. It is the nearest campground to Boston. We have lots of trees and quiet here with only a few other retired traveling folks as neighbors. It is very nice.
After getting settled, we drove around Hingham a bit and found dozens of houses on the National Historic register built in the 1700’s and 1800’s. Hingham was the 12th incorporated town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Old Ship Meeting House, built in 1660, is the oldest wooden church structure in continuous use in America. The houses are just huge – although most of them appear to have been built in stages with many additions. We followed winding narrow streets all leading to the bay. We could see the skyscrapers of Boston across the water. I don’t have a map of this area so we took a few wrong turns, but eventually found our way back to our campsite. We are on the Eastern edge of the Eastern time zone and it is pretty dark by 7:15.
We will take the ferry to Boston tomorrow.
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