New England Travelogue

Our trip north began last Friday morning with a direct, painless flight from Dulles to Boston. The entire duration of the time we spent in airports and planes was less than a one-way road trip to Blacksburg. We rented a retardedly small Yaris and drove to Danvers to say hello to my uncle in his frame shop, and then had local subs in a marina nearby.

We reached Rockport in the midafternoon (easy to do since all of our destinations were within fifty miles of each other) and wandered around the scenic town faking out tourist shoppe owners who thought we might buy something. The marina was picturesque, and filled with boats whose names were variations on puns about vacation, fish, or both. The bed and breakfast we stayed at was nice and comfy, and the innkeeper was friendly, but it was more a glorified motel than a B&B, especially since we had raisin bran for breakfast there.

From Rockport, we drove to Nashua in time to rouse Mike (of Mike and Chompy) from his previous night's hangover. A medicinal diner visit for a late breakfast was followed by a trip to Belknap Mountain on Lake Winnipesaukee (which was also the setting for the Bill Murray movie, What About Bob?) where we drove Mike's yuppy car halfway up the mountain and then hiked up the neighbouring Piper Mountain instead along the "White Trail". This trail was aptly named, as most of New Hampshire is white, even outside of winter.

Mike's birthday dinner for turning 31 was filet mignon, as well as games of Taboo with Chris and Xan.

Mike: "This one's easy. This is what you are: boy ____"
BU: "Band."
Mike: "No, it's an animal from -- "
BU: "Spain."

On Sunday, we took a brief tour of downtown Lowell which was mostly seedy (like when you accidentally buy the wrong type of grapes) and his professorial office in the Music Building which was roughly the size of Booty. We then ate coal-fired pizza and played a game of Hoopla in which Mike had to act out "Gloria Steinem" before getting on the plane back to Virginia.

How was your weekend?

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