A Rock, a Ship, and a Whole Lot of Seals: Our Last Stop, Plymouth

Before saying goodbye to Providence, we handled the least glamorous task of any family trip: draining Ariela of a truly heroic quantity of boogers, since she’d been fighting a nasty cold for most of the journey. Once that unpleasant business was done, we drove around town one more time to catch the sights we hadn’t…

Freedom Trail Day in Boston

Our second day in Boston was intense. Like, very intense. It was a full immersion in the history of the American Revolution, which, for all my non-American readers, is what the rest of the world calls the War of Independence. Same war, different marketing department. This is the day we walked the Freedom Trail, a…