The Greyhound Experience (Part II)

Salem, Massachusetts


Salem


Salem


Salem


Salem


Charles River, Boston


Historical reenactment in Boston Common


Italian sausages at the park


Where everybody knows your name..

In Canada I was traveling with Greyhound too but the buses were so much cleaner!
Since I was back in the States I decided to dedicate the title to my favourite bus company. The next trip was from Ottawa to Boston, Massachusetts. I can't remember much of that journey. I usually take the bus at night so I sleep (or I try to). Most of the times I have to change buses in some obscure town in the middle of nowhere. Now I remember. Syracuse! I had to wait at 3 am in the morning to the next bus at 6 am. I thought I would wait reading a book but I fell asleep and I almost missed the bus, when I woke up there was a massive queue in front of me, but again I was lucky. The only problem is that all the way I was half asleep, half awake so can't remember much of the scenery. I guess it was very green.
In Boston again I stayed with an excellent host from couchsurfing. The people I've met through that website are really really kind, generous, open minded and helpful. In Boston, Jorge, my host, lives in such a pretty pretty place in the center of the city, Beacon Hill. I never got tired of walking around those streets, the "oldest" in the United States. In a park nearby I saw a historical reenactment of the first settlers in Boston. Next to that park there is the Cheers cafe, cheers! I walked by the river and by the sea, around Harvard and the MIT and one evening I went to see "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" I got a bit homesick. The day before I left, I went by train to Salem, only half an hour outside Boston. It is famous because the hanged a few people who had been found guilty of withcraft, but for me it should be famous because of the lovely New England style houses all over the town. Wooden houses painted in the different colours: blue, pink, red, brown, all together looked so charming and cozy. I was very happy to have spent my day there because the day after I was going to THE BIG CITY.