Boston Massachuttes with a couple of extra stops in Maine

 Boston from our Harbor tour

 

 Drats! Wrong weekend to tour Boston.  Labor Day weekend, Move-in weekend for all the college sororities. Seems there are over 50 institutes of higher education in the Metropolitan Boston area, Including Harvard and MIT.
The  town was jam-packed with students and their  U-haul trucks full of their treasures.
To top off---- there was a Tom Petty concert at Fenway Park.

 What were we thinking??

Oh, and if you plan on attending the Tom Petty concert, plan on spending $60-$100 just to park your car.

Did I mention---Don't Drive in Boston.

 Here's a fun picture. We took a  boat tour on Boston Harbor. How else were we going to get us both in the picture?

 USS Constitution(Old Iron Side). Worlds oldest commissioned Navel vessel afloat. First launched in 1797. Still travels the seas with a fully commissioned naval crew.

Odd Buildings, But what would you expect in the heart of MIT. The Stata Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 Word has it that Bill Gates put up the money for this building in Cambridge. Harvard  of course, where Mr. Gates  dropped out  to become a billionaire.

Boston is full of very old beautiful architecture. Many of the historic building still in their original state. Mixed right in with the modern architecture.














 We spent a full two days touring Boston on the Super Trolly Tour. Hopping off and on at various sites. We rode the "T" in from Framingham  to Boston and hopped on the trolly just down from the station.
We toured Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Paul Revers House, Fenway Park, the Freedom Trail, Faneul Hall Historic Market/Meeting Hall---- and the list goes on.

A visit to the MIT Museum.
 Kismet the Robot, Exploring artificial intelligence.  There are some very cool holographic pieces at the MIT Museum but we were not allowed to photograph them

Riding the "T" into Boston. The folks here on the East coast know how to do Mass Transit.

Eartha

A 3-dimensional scale model of the earth. The worlds largest revolving/rotating globe simulating the earths real movements.
Delorme headquarters in Yarmouth Maine. 

Norm standing down in front of the Eartha.

 LL Bean Mothership in Yarmouth Maine.
It's a Car Shoe.

Norm just couldn't resist.
 Male humor you know??

Visiting Cape Cod
Really, we did visit Cape Cod and then we toured the Cape Cod Potato Chip Factory. 












Random Observations:
Car Horns are very important here in the North East.
Dunkin Donuts are very popular in the North Eastern States. 
They are everywhere.
Walmart architecture is old English style on the outside. Very refined looking.