Hurricane Arthur, The East Coast, and Lammyjammy, part 8

Well it's Friday and Lammyjammy is well underway. As you can see, the weather is great and everyone is slowly waking up and or arriving. Time to head down to breakfast and see who's showed up:

 My bike has a new friend. One of many over the weekend. Parking was at a premium over the weekend so that's where she stayed parked.

Gonna have that coffee first before unloading ;-)

One spot, 8 scooters.

The ever so fun, "Hey, can you help me for a minute" I don't mind as what comes around goes around.

Filling every spot!

A few of the scooters outside my room this morning. 

Hey auto focus, what happened?

One rather full hotel breakfast room with some of the usual suspects from Canada.


I've been living on the road for a week and let me tell you, just because the breakfast is included in your room, it really isn't the best. The coffee is about average for a hotel, which means weak and rather tasteless. But it will get you started.

I might as well get registered and get my goodies before the hordes show up.

Woody working hard filling the goodie bags with T shirts

Well, I've got my goodie bag and all the reg crap out of the way, so now it's time to catch up with friends and see who has arrived. No sooner than that, everyone is getting ready for the Friday ride around Boston. Since I've got no scooter and there's no way I'm driving the BMW in Boston, hey I did that just to get to the hotel, so no go.But I did get invited to go to Salem, MA to burn a witch with Andrea and some of the Toronto crew, but I did want to see Boston this time.  So after everyone has left for the ride, the hotel is pretty deserted. But no problem as Gene from Scooters "O" has set up his booth. After talking for Gene for way too long, and I don't mean that in a bad way, it's time for me to head downtown and do some of the tourist things. The last time I was in Boston was for a  scooter run, in which we all piled in Pattie's van and stayed at Diane's place when she lived in Boston. My one regret was not doing the tourist thing, and that I would correct this time. They went to Salem that time as well, now I'm wondering if all my friends are witches?


So, off to the front desk and to ask about Boston's fine transit system. Which turned out to be pretty easy. All I had to do is head down to the 7/11 and purchase a "Charley Card" which to load some money on and the fare is $2.05 per trip. I wish my hotel room was as reasonable!

Glad I took this pic as I almost got on the wrong branch to head back to the hotel. Washington square instead of Street!

First and closest attraction on the T was Fenway Park. I wanted to stop here as they bought Liverpool FC a few years ago and I was hoping they have some gear in stock. I wasn't too hopeful as I'd already looked into it. But with the big Roma vs Liverpool game to be played at Fenway in a few weeks, one can always be hopeful.  Great shop if your a Red Sox's fan, but nothing for me.

Just one cool bus, I need this for the camping runs!










As I was walking around Fenway I spotted the tour trolley bus unloading/loading. So off I go to catch it. The friendly driver said I could pay at one of the manned stops and to enjoy the ride.

Boston Trolley Tours    Good tour and friendly staff, I'd recommend the tour.

Great guys and tour, so here's the link if you ever make it to Boston. Anyway, while going over the river to MIT, which by the way looks like every other campus that you've been by or to, I go online to get my trolley tickets and hopefully a discount. Which surprisingly I get. A few stops later I come across the "Boston Tea Party", which if I choose is included in my ticket. So why not?

Looks good and the next show starts in 5 min.

Modern day Boston is 60% landfill. So even where the Boston tea party happened has long been filled in. It actually happened where those 2 tall buildings are. Not where the tourist bit is.

It was an interactive tour. Great if you have kids, but not for someone pressed for time like me.

The tour was so interesting I was more interested in looking at the Jellyfish. I didn't know they were this far north.

Yes you too can throw overboard your own tea box. I left that chore to the kids.

These ships were a lot smaller than I thought they be. I was told that it was due to the shallow harbour. Hey guess I did learn something.

Only the captain got the good spot. Really everyone else had to fend for themselves.








It's a ok tour, if you want to learn about the history of the tea party. Also having a actual tea box from the Boston tea party was cool. Not being able to take a pic of said box was cheesy. Here's a pic of it from the web anyway.

2 hours later and I'm back on the tour trolley. If I could do it all over again I'd go for the tour of Fenway Park. Here are some assorted pics I took while on the bus.

"Cheers" Bar. Line up outside and totally different that the tv show bar. That's about as close as I need to get to that tourist trap

No idea why I took this pic?

Boston common. It gave me a better understanding on the whole Boston bomber thing.

Police station and now a restaurant, what a great idea.

Well all good things must come to a end, as the tour trolley stops picking up after 5 pm to end the tour day. You do get a 2 day pass so it's not to bad. So back on the T and back to the hotel. This is where that pic of my starting stop picture came in handy.


Friday night, and I'm almost embarrassed to say this, but for the second night in a row I went to sleep with the intention of waking up in a few hours and joining everyone. But no, my body has other ideas like sleep and I wake up in the morning. I must buy more doubleshot starbucks to stop this from happening.


Day 8 0 miles.

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Just to add. I guess you've been wondering why this update has taken so long. It's not by me trying but I've had some major problems. On Saturday I decided to update my ROM on the phone. It worked great for a couple of hours then boom. No phone, as it wouldn't get past the start up page.  I did bring a backup phone for emergency's, but the camera sucked so no picks from Sunday on.

The second problem I had was with the actual blog (Blogger). Every time I'd do an update it would erase it back to an earlier point. This went on for about 2 weeks. Finally I figured it out. Having more than one page open on a different phone or computer would do this. It came to a point that if I couldn't get it going today, I was seriously thinking of stopping or changing to a different site. Just glad I got it figured out finally.