Day 127 (Sep 20) – Cape Cod

Today we drove down the Cape.  Or at least as much as we could.  We got a late start and then stopped pretty soon at Plymouth.  I just wanted to photograph Plymouth Rock.  It is just a rock, a fairly small rock, stamped with 1620, but it is supposedly approximately the place where they would have come ashore in Dec 1620.  The town turned out to be a pretty fun adventure.  We spent about two hours walking around looking at old buildings and antique stores.  We met “Fat” the cat in a used/rare bookstore.  The owner told us to drive 6A and not 6 if we wanted to see the towns.  We took off with that in mind.  We did go down 6 a little further though to get to Hyannis and the Cape Cod chip factory before it closed at 5.  We made it and walked the short tour (chip making is a brief process!) and got two sample bags a piece.  There were no photos allowed, so I only have one of a truck outside.  We drove around Hyannis for a bit trying to spot a Kennedy, but I doubt we saw one.  We did see some beautiful houses and boats.  From there we got on 6A and drove through some very New England towns.  As sundown approached, the girls were ready to get out of the truck.  Carmen wanted to see a beach.  We barely made it to the edge of the Cape Cod National Seashore and quickly found a beach.  It was so cold.  The coldest we’ve been so far on the trip.  The Cape isn’t very wide at this point and it felt like we were in the middle of the ocean.  Carmen played in the sand and the rest of us did some ocean gazing and surfer watching.  There were two men in swimsuits out with boogie boards (Crazy!) and one teenager in a wetsuit with a surfboard.  We visited with his dad for a bit.  There were grey seals all along the coast around the surfer.  At first we thought it was a shark, but then could tell by their heads they were seals.  He came in after he saw them though.  As we headed west toward “home,” the sky was blazing with color from the sun set.  We got back late, ate at Whole Foods, again, and turned the heat on in the camper.  Just for a minute.  It’s warmer at camp than on the Cape, but still chilly.

Tomorrow we will see cousins – Brad’s brother’s children.  Then we head to NYC for the weekend.  We will be without a computer, but I’ll be back next week!

Cape Cod