Touring a City in One Day: Boston

Before I get into today's post about my day trip to a historical city.  I would like to inform you guys of one of my friend's Courtney Davis and her awesome blog entitled Places To Escape To it's another blog about interesting locations.

It's a great day when you wake up at 6:00 am to reach your church by 6:30 to leave for a day of touring a city.  I takes about four hours to get from where I live to Boston, Massachusetts.  With the GPS malfunctioning and taking us down roads that didn't exist added about and hour more.  Spending extra time on a school bus than originally planned can be painful when it is with about 40 middle schoolers.

The streets of Boston are narrow and filled with so much history.  We visited many graveyards looking at the grave stones of historical figures.  Along with several ancient churches leading back to the beginning of the country. We also got on this boat type thing (pictured to the left) to tour the city even faster.

While in one of the cemeteries we did a scavenger hunt using names, date of birth, or death to find the rest of the information of the dead. While is was a fun activity it was very informing about the age of some of those men.


In the end it was a very long day. We stayed in the city of Boston till around 8:15 when it started to get dark.  The long drive back started with most of us sleeping after the long day of walking we had. Touring a city in one day is fun but also makes you very tired.  I plan to go back again and take more time than just a day.

Life Lesson #10: When walking around a city for a day be prepared with proper walking shoes, water, and a working camera.