Boston Buns?

It may surprise you to hear that we didn't find any Boston buns in Boston. But we found lots of other cool stuff.

Our first task (again) was to master the local subway system (the 'T') and get to our hostel. The next day we did the Boston Freedom Trail, learning all about personalities such as Paul Revere and John Adams, and the American Revolution (at least those bits of it pertaining to Boston). I got to check out the oldest commissioned warship in the world (the USS Constitution, of wood and canvas) and walk all over and through a WWII destroyer.

We also got to go to the movie 'Hot Fuzz' for free! I would highly recommend it to those of you who have a sense of humour.

The next day we checked out the Boston Science Museum. We got our days wrong, since the previous day had been cold and windy and our "inside day" was going to be sunny and warm(er), so spent some time outside in the sunshine looking over the water from the Adams Dam into Back Bay before we went in. Good thing we did, too, because the Museum occupied the rest of the day! It was really interesting but we were both pretty museum-ed out after that.

We found the cheapest bus to New York, the Fung Wa (?) bus, which goes directly to Chinatown instead of to any sort of bus depot but it seemed to do the job. The ticket people were funny, calling us over to buy tickets and hustling us onto the bus, it felt more like a Bangkok tourist scam than a commercial transport operation.