Life on the Cape

Jun 14 - 18.…Happy Father’s Day to all. We are currently on Cape Code at an RV Park in Eastham, which is on the outer cape. We were very surprised to see so many trees. The drive all along the cape is covered with trees - so much so that you only get a glimpse of the water every now and then. We drove the back road on the southern cape to Hyannis on Friday. We had lunch on a beach in the Hyannis Port area and walked around the town. Also while in Hyannis we toured the “Cape Cod Potato Chip Factory”. Did you know that it takes approx. 4 pounds of potatoes to make 1 pound of potato chips? If you have never had these chips you need to try them. Saturday we went to Plymouth (America’s Hometown) where we toured Plimoth Plantation, the Mayflower II & Plymouth Rock. The Plimoth Plantation was very interesting - it has the Wampanoag Indian Homesite, the 1627 Pilgrim Village and a Crafts Center. Each area has costumed interpreters living as they did in 1627. The Native people showed us how they built their homes, made canoes, bow & arrows & lived their life. In the English Village the Pilgrims were in each of their homes - cooking actual food in their fire pits inside the home & carrying on conversations as they would have in 1627. You could ask them questions & they would explain how they live, about their trip over & generally anything about their life since arriving in ‘New England’. It was very interesting to learn more of our history. The Mayflower II is a re-creation of the original Mayflower. It was sailed to it’s present position in 1957. On board were costumed role players portraying passengers & sailors from 1620. It was a small ship for a 102 passengers! Plymouth Rock - what can we say….it’s smaller than we thought it would be! It’s really a big boulder - about 4 ft wide and 2 ft tall! However, we still had to see it. After doing all that we drove 40 something more miles into Boston to go to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. We’ve been to Boston before so we intend to drive around it when we leave this area. We don’t want to get the motor home anywhere near downtown Boston as the traffic is awful! Today we biked about 6 miles of the 20 something ‘Rail Trail’ that is connected to the RV Park. We rode to the Coast Guard Beach where we sat down on the beach and waded in the water. Tonight we went to another beach on the bay side and watched the sunset. Today it was 75 degrees - perfect weather! Our Father's Day dinner was surf & turf...we went to the 'Friendly Fishermans' market & picked out a live lobster - they steamed it & we took it home to eat. It was delicious--much better when it's fresh!