Located on Liberty Street.
The first thing we planned to do on Monday morning in Salem was to attend a historical walking tour put on by a Jim McAllister. We were 15 minutes late and missed that. I will provide the link so you can see how good it would have been had we made it. But undaunted we reminded ourselves that we were having a laid back day on Monday in Salem and could just as easily relax doing something else.
http://www.derbysquaretours.com/aboutjim.htm
After wandering around for awhile in the shops we had an early lunch at Reds.
http://redssandwichshop.com/
and then we headed down to the wharf to the other national park area.
http://www.nps.gov/sama/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm#CP_JUMP_80056
We had missed the morning tours there but there was one afternoon one that they would be doing so we shopped and then returned at the designated time to take that tour. It was full. I was a little miffed at the park ranger as he should have told us to secure a spot we needed to get a ticked when we were there the first time. As we left I told Peg I would have to write a letter when we got home to the National Park Service because they usually do a much better job than that. Never the less that was when we wandered over to the House of Seven Gables that I posted the pictures of already and it made up for any prior disappointments. We did some window shopping and it was after five already. By this time we were tired. We had walked all over Salem a couple of times and it had been a damp and misty day. So we headed back to our B&B and had food delivered for supper from:
http://www.thaiplace.net/
And spent some time planning our second days excursions.
oh how cute
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ReplyDeleteall lovely thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteThanks Heidi. Monday was kind of a laid back day as we were recovering from the train trip. We got on the train on Saturday night at midnight in South Bend IN and were in our suite at the bed and breakfast about eleven pm on Sunday night. We did a lot more on Tuesday and Wednesday than we did on Monday. I will get all the photos posted as I can find time.
ReplyDeleteI was teaching an American History class at LSU back in the 1980's and we showed slides and talked about the National Paks dedicated to the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteOne "kid" (probably 21 or 22) raised his hand and asked, "Has anybody ever said why it was that all these Civil War battles were fought in National Parks?"
I told him, "I think you may be the first."
As bad as that was, in an English Lit class I was teaching we had been reading and disussing Julius Caeser for a few weeks. Finally one 20 something raised his hand and asked "Was Julius Caeser upset with Shakespeare for the way he portrayed him in this play?"
I left teachng shortly thereafter to devote the rest of my days to backet weaving and twiddling my thumbs and toes ...
Rosie found some good quotes on education that she posted on the next photo album of my trip to the Boston area.
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