Looking down the Single Chair - that's Mount Mansfield in the background.

How you can tell I’m a travel writer…

…and not a travel photographer. Although it is Friday, generally the province of photography themed posts around the interwebs, and although I am recently back from a family ski vacation in the very photogenic Vermont, not a single photo did I snap …

Printing broadsides at Edes & Gill printshop in Boston

Even the kids get in on the act

Please click on the photo to see a full-sized version. I may have walked the Freedom Trail on several occasions in the past, but it still had surprises in store for me. In the street behind the Old North Church, we discovered the then newly opened …

The Union Oyster House Sign - maybe someday I'll get to taste the food!

Have you ever had a family travel food fail?

So I mentioned earlier this week that my children walked the entire Freedom trail – all two and half miles of it – over the course of about six or seven hours one gorgeous July day. But in that post I didn't tell you the sad end of the story. …

Am I as big as a sea turtle?

Petting sharks at the New England Aquarium

Boston is a city of water – from the harbor to the Charles River to the brooks and ponds of the Fenway, you won't venture far without encountering something aquatic. So it stands to reason that the New England Aquarium (which is situated right on a …

Pulpit Old South Meeting House

A lesson in history at the Old South Meeting House

When I wrote about the Freedom Trail, I mentioned the Old South Meeting House as a site that is not to be missed. It is one of those spaces that is compelling, both for the enlightenment simplicity and grace of its inner architecture and for the …