Day 2 - Aug 31, 2014 Last updated: 9/14/14 10:00am PT
In the morning we took the subway back to the airport to pick up the rental car. Usually non-airport car rentals are cheaper, but not this time.
The Minute Man National Historical Park runs between Lexington and Concord, west of Boston. This park follows the trail of Paul Revere’s ‘midnight ride’. Not sure how Revere got so famous, he didn’t even finish the ‘ride’. Here we see the spot where he got captured by the British. Someone else, Samuel Prescott, finished the ride to Concord.
In Concord, the North Bridge is the place where the first shot was fired in the Revolutionary War.
We drove past Walden Pond, as it is very close to Concord, but the parking lots were closed (full) and there wasn’t even room on the side of the road to stop and take a picture (It was Labor Day weekend, and I guess a lot of locals spend time there). Denise took a picture as we drove by. Not much of a view.
In the southwest corner of New Hampshire is a house covered in license plates.
Our endpoint for today is in Bennington, VT. Below are pictures at the Bennington Battle Monument. This is Vermont’s tallest structure at 306 feet. This monument commemorates the battle fought here in 1777. It was built between 1887 and 1891. We took the elevator to the viewing area (the row of 5 larger windows near the top).
We also visited a place where they make pottery, but being a Sunday, no potters where making anything.
Had some excellent burgers at Kevin’s Sports Pub in North Bennington.