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December 2000

Massachusetts - Boston

David Aaronson
2005-09-24 18:48:23

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This (picture 1 below) is the city of Boston as seen from a plane landing at Logan Airport. There's a little bit of glare off the plane window but they don't seem to really be designed for optimal photography. The background is another view of the skyline from the north.

After meeting David's mom at the airport (which was impressive because she had negative 7 minutes to change planes in New York and still made it), and dropping the luggage off at the airport, we chose the Quincy Market area of downtown (2) as the first place to freeze to death. Quincy Market is a historic marketplace in Boston which has been joined by the parallel north and south markets. They don't appear particularly historic these days. That's the north market in the foreground of this picture.

After some time at the marketplace, we followed the Freedom Trail (a red brick line directing tourists to all the official historic sites in the city) into the north end which is now primarily an Italian neighborhood. Paul Revere is one of the north end's more famous residents. His house is still standing amidst a sea of taller brick apartment buildings. This is the Paul Revere plaza (3) located appropriately just behind the Old North Church from whence he began his famous ride.

And this is the Old North Church from the front (4) - or as close to the front as one can really get. Photography is not allowed inside the church. Along with a vast number of historical markers and plaques, the box pews are labelled as to who they originally belonged to.

Here are David's mom and Melanie freezing alongside the Charles River (5). This is as far as we followed the Freedom Trail on the first day because the next step was a long bridge exposed to the wind. The obelisk in the background is the Bunker Hill Monument. We visited the New England Aquarium after this and we do not have a single solitary picture ...