I began my New England tour by driving up through Connecticut and Rhode Island to Massachusetts.  My first real stop was Plymouth, where the Pilgrims landed in America in 1620.  Everyone had told me that the ship was amazingly small to have carried 102 people for over two months.

Henry David Thoreau is my favorite author, and I have enjoyed reading his book Walden several times.  I was very much looking forward to seeing where he grew up in Concord, and especially his Walden Pond homesite.  I saw only a couple people on the half mile trail to his homesite, and I had the site all to myself for the hour I sat there.

I spent less time in Boston itself than I had planned due to inability to find parking on the narrow streets of Old Town.  However, I did take the tour of the USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides, and enjoyed that very much.  I also climbed the Bunker Hill Monument, quite a workout.