The work week was pretty stressful, mostly because I had meetings out near where I live three mornings. Driving into the office after the meetings was fine, but driving home at the end of the day was tedious. Oh, well, I don't anticipate doing that often.
The weekend was a good one, though. I flew up to Boston and did two Volksmarch year round events. One was in Quincy, which counts as a "Q" in the "A to Z" program (as well as being a U.S. Presidents, College Campus, and National Heritage event). The historic area includes the Adams mansion, the garden of which has a rosebush (not, alas, in bloom) originally planted by Abigail Adams. But most of the walk was pretty much average suburbia. Pleasant enough, but not terribly exciting.
The Beacon Hill and Back Bay walk, which I did today, was more uniformly wonderful. I've always loved walking around Boston and this walk even took me down a few streets I'd never been to before, as well as some places I hadn't been to in years. I can't imagine why I'd never walked around Louisburg Square before, for example. And the roses were still still in bloom at the rose garden in the Back Bay Fens.
I also had some time to hang out in Harvard Square, which has gotten more corporate in some ways but still has its pockets of local business and doesn't quite look like everywhere else on the planet yet. And I found a t-shirt that was so perfect for me that I had to buy it. It says "I Love New York. It's Just the Yankees I Hate."
I did not have enough time to do either of the two other Boston walks or to get together with a dozen or so people I know up there. Which, I suppose, means I need to get there more often.
Copyright 2006 Miriam H. Nadel