I am off on a four week adventure. My first stop is Boston to visit two of my freshman year college roommates. I will then fly to Almaty, Kazakhstan with an overnight stop in Frankfurt. I will be a solo participant in a Roadscholar tour traveling the Silk Road in Central Asia. We will be going to 5 different Stan countries. On my way home, I will spend five days in Frankfurt.

In Boston, I spent two days on the Cape. We went to Provincetown. I used to go there when I was a small child. Haven’t been back there since the early 1950s. To be honest, I don’t remember what it looked like. However, it was fun to go there this time. We took an hour sightseeing tour on a trolley, then walked around and eventually visited the Cape Cod National Seashore. So some of the things I learned was that people in Provincetown say that the pilgrims landed there first. After spending six weeks and determining that the area was not habitable,they moved onto Plymouth. Across from Provincetown is a fairly long sandbar. In the 1700s and 1800s, people built homes on the sandbar. It became untenable to maintain those homes, and they literally put them on barges and floated them to the mainland during the 19th century. The homes that were removed are marked today with a certain plaque. The winds and tides are constantly remaking Cape Cod’s shore line. There are sandbars that within a couple days look entirely different.

I just love Cape Cod architecture. Here are some of the interesting houses that I saw. 

Some street scenes.

Scenes on the piers and along the beach.

Cape Cod National Seashore