owlmoose | Vacationland

I was basically off DW for the past week and a bit -- took a trip to Massachusetts, Maine, and Pennsylvania, and four more states if you include the ones I only drove through (Boston to Portland and back, and later Boston to the Philadelphia area). The central reason for this trip was a meeting at Bryn Mawr on Friday night and Saturday, but T and I decided to make a real vacation out of it, and he'd never been to Boston (or any other part of New England, for that matter) so we flew out a week early. We started at A's house in Boston for a couple of days (highlights included the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum -- anyone named Isabella gets in free! -- and an architecture-focused boat tour of Boston Harbor and the Charles River). Then M, who lives in Portland, Maine, but came down to Boston on Sunday, took us on a scenic drive up there. We stayed the night, spent the morning wandering around Portland, and then took the bus back to Boston. T decided to skip the Philadelphia portion of the trip and flew home on Thursday; A and I drove down to Bryn Mawr on Friday. We somehow got ourselves elected class co-presidents, and the time has come to start planning our 25th reunion -- someone please tell me how it has been a quarter century since I started my senior year of college?? Anyway, it was a great get together with our classmates and other Mawrters, energizing as a trip to the Mothership always is, and I can't wait for the reunion, which is the last week of May.

It was good to get away, and to see more of Maine -- I'd been to Portland once many years ago, for a Barenaked Ladies concert, but we basically drove up from Boston and back in a day, and it was essentially dark the entire time we were in the city. And of course I always enjoy time with M and A, a commodity much rarer than it used to be. It's amazing to have friends that I've known continuously for almost 30 years, and with luck I'll know them for 30 more.

Vacationland

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