Vacationland

[owlmoose]

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.