Durgin Park, huh, I took my mother there in 1969, after my father died, and that was probably a high point of one really bad trip. When I say took, I mean, I worked out a trip for us from Los Angeles.
It was when I started figuring out there was something very wrong (she was into beginning Alzheimer's but that wasn't a word any of us knew, then). I must have picked Durgin Park from some guide book. Eh! I wasn't then my obnoxious gourmet self now, but still, it was non satisfying, though I forget the whys.
We arrived by plane, took a cab, I think, to the Travelodge in Watertown, her home town. Took buses after that. Gads, what a horrible trip. She wouldn't meet the friend I'd arranged for her to see, that she'd corresponded with for, oh, sixty years, and I didn't catch on to her mental problems, aside from being a combination of perplexed and aggravated.
I feel I have unfinished business in Boston, past my grudge building Irish family. But if I ever get there, Durgin Park isn't on my agenda.
Well, c'mon back sometime Osso, and we'll try to build you a better set of memories.
The room is confirmed/paid.
My Amtrak tickets are booked.
The VISA bill for that is paid as well.
And I bought my "Frommer's Boston 2007". With foldout map.
Very good!
In order to get ready for the true Boston experience, you may want to
pracitice your jaywalking.
See ya this summer.
George wrote:In order to get ready for the true Boston experience, you may want to
pracitice your jaywalking.
I'm a bit traumatised, I must confess, about that after I read what happened in Atlanta recently ... :wink:
Walter Hinteler wrote:George wrote:In order to get ready for the true Boston experience, you may want to
pracitice your jaywalking.
I'm a bit traumatised, I must confess, about that after I read what happened in Atlanta recently ... :wink:
Don't worry. If the Boston Police start arresting people for jaywalking,
you will be visiting a ghost town next June.
George wrote:you may want to pracitice your jaywalking.
(just please don't practice on the autobahn...)
Region Philbis wrote:George wrote:you may want to pracitice your jaywalking.
(just please don't practice on the autobahn...)
Seems, you really want to meet me. :wink:
Well, sure. We're also guessing that the full-on Walter experience would leave something to be desired if you were squashed as flat as a pancake by a student driver.
Walter, are you staying at that bed & breakfast we discussed via PMs?
I'm staying in the
Nolan House, Andrew - due to various facts selected that.
(Arriving with the Acela Express on Jun 6 at 1:35 pm.)
My grandmother, Julia Cullen, was from south Boston, though I don't know more than that re where, exactly.
Not to torque the thread... just saying, I'm following.
Walter Hinteler wrote:I'm staying in the
Nolan House, Andrew - due to various facts selected that.
(Arriving with the Acela Express on Jun 6 at 1:35 pm.)
South Station? Hmmm I may be able to work something out ... I work near there but the contract may be up by then.
Shoot. I will be in India or Amsterdam or Cambodia. or Slovakia...one of those. Coming back to Boston around 16th June.
In the meantime: I have never been to Isabella Gardner museum, shame on me, shame on me. I want to go. Can't go this coming weekend, but am thinking of the one after. Saturday. Anyone wants to join?
dagmaraka wrote:
In the meantime: I have never been to Isabella Gardner museum, shame on me, shame on me. I want to go. Can't go this coming weekend, but am thinking of the one after. Saturday. Anyone wants to join?
I'd be up for that but its a hell of a walk over.
Yeh, I want to see that museum too...
