The Weekender entourage will occupy Cape Cod this Saturday through the following Sunday. Beachhead will be established in Brewster.
No computer access for that period so I fully expect to come home to a full-scale attack on good ol Mericun values on the Chiffboard.
Chiffers who wanta meet or whistle, contact me here before Friday. Big house, good for playin’. Bringing whistle but no geetar so other Weekender can only chord slave if one is provided. Perhaps I will finally meet Feadan.
I am pretty sure there is a session nearby on Saturday nights hosted by Bill Blackburn, right?
He no longer accepts my calls after one bilious rant too many. Anyhoo, he is pretty far away, on the western side of the state in Groovy Pioneer Valley.
BTW, I will be seeing cranberry bogs. My younger son is lookin forward to finding snakes, playing his saxophone and the bigger one is bringing two skateboards. Between the sax and my whistles and the longboard, I expect the same crank neighbor to threaten to call the police like she did last time.
With the recent bad news about the red tide, our hopes for way-cheaper-than-Calaforny clams and chowder may be dashed. But lobster is still cheaper than here and not affected, we hear. My older boy is one of those Guiness type eaters. His name is on a plaque in Sedona for eating some gargantuan hamburger. He’s only 15, but at 6’1", he has at least two hollow legs.
Something to look forward to. it’s been so long that I traveled that I find myself freaked out about the trip (flying, packing, you-name-it). A bad sign, but when I get there, it will be better.
Compared to Californy, it is. But the population is high enough and the roads circuitous enough that you can’t blast from here to there quickly.
Since this is my boys only trip to the Northeast, I may do some driving for their sake. Mebbe Rhode Island, over to Mystic Conn. etc. Definitely to Plimouth Plantation. We might go to Sturbridge village, a very cool place. THey just used it on that Spielberg western on the teevee now. It was supposedly Indiana.
PS. I called Bloo last time I was out there. Very cordial.
Boston is a terrific city too. Park in the outskirts and take the excellent public transit, as driving and parking is tough there. Lots of great things for the whole family to see and do.
Make sure you see some of the National Seashore beaches-- the water is cold, but the waves can be spectacular and the sand dunes are really beautiful.
Liam’s at Nauset Beach has the best onion rings on the face of the planet-- whisper thin and amazingly good. Their fried clams are wonderful too, but you probably won’t get them this time around
Provincetown is a real trip, and a whale watch from there is a lot of fun.
Hey, do me a favor… check your phone book and see if there’s a lawyer there named (I SWEAR I’m not kidding…) Morris D. Katz ! There was one back in the 80’s-- a marine lawyer.
Thanks for tips, Paul. We land at Logan at 7 a.m. Saturday morning. We have been debating whether to stay in town and look around or just head to Cape. BEcause we are flying out early on a Monday, we also are debating how to spend time there. Seems like an overnight stay in town is unavoidable if so. Just not sure.
Will look for the o-rings!!! Hey, I think we have Morris D. Katz out here too. Now I have to look!
If you’re at Mystic (one or two weekends late…the music fest was LAST weekend, Weekender!) let me know ahead of time…may make the trip down there to wave and say hello.
Thanks Ty. Not sure at this point. Other Weekender’s kids are coming down to spend some time. Debating about doing the very pricey things, like going to Nantucket etc or coming onto “mainland” to do these other things.
We missed the music fest last time too at Mystic! Dangit. In fact, we missed the Newport Folk Festival by one day last year. I suppose we could plan better but the kids get out of school Thursday and we leave Friday so that was pretty good.
If anybody else has groovy things to do on Cape Cod, post 'em. We know about taking the fishing trip, possibly the Island ferry, the mandatory gawking at P-town (which is like SF but ten years ago last time we went) and that great maritime museum there. My kids love to swim. We went to a bayside beach last time that was sorta shallow for a great distance so not great for swimming but good for wading. Any favorite swimming spots? We know about the rail line/bike path thing and my son found a place to skateboard out by P-town. Any cheezy mini-golf there? yes, I can do websearch but would love your faves if you have 'em. And I still need to know the name of that pub that has the session… I think its in Brewster or Hyannisport near a real good lobster restaurant on the water. We also have been to Sandwich which I love because I have one ancestor who lived in the Wing/Fort House..I am definitely going to take the kids to the glass factory. When i went several years ago, they were constructing a new part that will have actual glass-blowing. I hope that’s done!
Its funny, because we have whale-watching here and I have done it in Hawaii, so not sure I would do it there even though it might be different whales. I bet its pricey too.
Oh yeah, where can I go to use a computer to check my email? Don’t own a laptop or anything…
