A month long stay near Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Top attractions visited including Plymouth, downtown Providence, and Fort Phoenix State Reservation
Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts Henry David Thoreau: “A man may stand there and put all America behind…” My first introduction to the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts started just about a year after my family immigrated to the United States. I was then an impressionable 10 year old, and a friend of the family took myself and my brother on a 2 nights/3 days trip to Boston, Plymouth, and Cape Cod . The reason why he did that was to sort of pay us back for helping him out with his outside flea market stall in Brooklyn, NY . We did sales and kept a watch over the stall for several days. We didn’t expect that kind of reward for our few days worth of work, so we were both befuddled but super excited. I mean, it wasn’t like he didn’t pay us for those few days of labor. Anyway, long story short, my brother and I were whisked away, traveling, for us at the time, practically first class. We stayed at a nice downtown hotel in Boston, and we g...