Day 1 - Aug 30, 2014 Last updated: 9/14/14 8:00am PT
For our 20th wedding anniversary we weren’t sure where to go. We thought Montreal and Quebec might be different, since they speak French and we don’t, and would be cheaper than going to France. Since there are no non-stop flights from Seattle to either location, and we couldn’t be bothered with a layover somewhere in between 🙂 we decided to fly to Boston and drive 2000+ miles from Boston to Boston, the long way, zig-zag-ing around New England and New France. (actual driving mileage was about 2250 miles). Look at the Maps page for a rough outline of our path.
We visited 6 states and 2 provinces. It sounds like a lot, but most of the states are really small. Because Rhode Island is so small, I think we’ve actually been to 90% of that state’s land area.
We knew we were missing the ‘fall color’ season, but we also would miss the fall crowds and prices.
The last time we went to Boston, in 2001, we lived in Chicago and the flight time was about 2 hours. From Seattle it is around 6 hours. So we left Seattle at 8:30 in the morning and arrived in Boston after 5pm with the three hour timezone change. We took the subway from the airport to our hotel in the city (John Jeffries House – a small hotel with clean and quiet rooms, but most important a reasonable price in downtown Boston). We are renting a car, but not picking it up until tomorrow. No point in paying an extra day (plus parking) when we weren’t leaving Boston until morning.
Dinner was at Jacob Wirth, a German restaurant we liked last time. This time we weren’t as impressed. Maybe because it didn’t live up to the (now closed) German restaurant we loved in Seattle call ‘Bratz’.