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In going to Boston I began to think that it was not a good idea to move by rail. This is the first of the email reports I did after the four from New York. It was on the occasion of my solo trip in 2004.
After 5 days of full immersion in the Big Apple, I began to whisk around the East Coast hopping between cities. Boston was also a major center of immigration. The following article explains how you can find traces of any relatives who immigrated in past centuries.
Featured photo, with IA joking about my expectations of U.S. railroads. They turned out to be really shabby. Much better were the Canadian ones that I experienced many years later: Coast to coast of Canada
Boston, Washington and Philadelphia
I will be brief because I am in a little car that is costing me capital. I have just arrived in Washington, I will see part of it tonight, another part tomorrow night and Saturday, because tomorrow I will spend the day in Philadelphia.
I’m a bit lame…My foot hurts (I think I walked too much in New York). Since I’m walking by leaning my feet badly, I’m getting a blister…phew…These are the obvious setbacks of when you’re so eager to get to know and discover new places that only by walking around can you notice and appreciate.
Going to Boston by train
Boston is just beautiful, I agree with those who called it very European, I would say Irish because of the many pubs (not coincidentally in the mid 1800s when Ireland had famine they emigrated here in droves). Unfortunately, I could not visit it well enough because of an organizational problem with transportation.
On Tuesday, I lost half a day arranging transportation by train; I’m a bit of a sucker with my homemade English, but American railroads are puzzling me. I chose to move by rail, influenced by too many western movies imposed by my father when I was a child. Well, if you happen to come to these parts, don’t be like me; if you have to use public transportation, definitely better planes or buses.
But among the good things about traveling on your own is having to scramble to find the solutions of all kinds, however, if you lose a lot of time on it you regret it.
Visiting Boston and Harvard
I also toured residential neighborhoods, and saw typical American houses, the ones you see in movies. One looked like the renovated Addams Family house.
I also took a little tour of the legendary Harvard University and walked around the park and the driveways where they filmed Screem. It is so different from our universities, especially when I think of where I studied in Bologna.
I also visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History. In my opinion it is a must-see if you decide to go to Boston. There is a beautiful collection of stones and an ‘incredible display of very strange tropical plants, made of glass, but looking exactly like the real thing, even in the smallest details.
Ah, I forgot to mention that in New York I went to Coyote Ugly (for those who have seen the movie…cute…).
But I also saw giant stuffed bats. And especially the head of one of Megaloman‘s arch-enemies. Remember that blond guy in the tight-fitting onesie kicking dinosaurs? If you don’t know who he is, go look him up on youtube, he deserves it.
Home Trip Tripping in the USA with Viro
Previous stop Meetings in New York and also Gospel Mass.
Next stop Injured on the road: Washington and Philadelphia
Trips taken, travel stories divided by continent
Countries visited in my travel stories
Anecdotes, divided by type in travel narratives
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