I've walked.

I have walked more in the last few days that I have walked since...well, Toronto! I think more, though! They don't call this the "City that Walks" for nothin'. I've done lots of touristy things and hopefully some more off the beaten path things and it's been fun! I rode a subway (The T) back and forth several times the other day attempting to get to Concord to see Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, but never got there. I went to the wrong stop first, then went back, then was going to board the commuter train out there, then decided I didn't have time, so got back on the T and ended up at Harvard, where I wandered for a few hours! See train picture below!
Yesterday, I rode a trolley and got off near "Old Ironsides" (see another pic!), then walked up to Bunker Hill, and then walked UP the monument--all 294 steps! I thought I was pretty much going to die, or at least pass out, by the time I got up there. Even scrawny guys who said they were in shape were huffing and puffing, so I felt pretty good!
I decided if I moved to the Boston area, I'd have to live in the neighborhood where Bunker Hill is--Charlestown. It is a peaceful, "quaint" little area. Lots of pretty townhomes with all kinds of cool decorations on the stoops, and quiet! They have these weird little short doors on the lower levels...I'm still wondering about those.
Well, I'm off to Salem today with a bunch of women. I am spending this one day with the "companion" program for Todd's conference instead of alone.