The day in Boston had a nice start, we went to the Samuel Adams brewery and took a tour there. Yes, the first day I wasn't driving and I'm drinking first thing in the morning. But hey, I'm on holiday. The tour was really interesting and we learned why all of the bigger beer brands in the States, like Budweiser, taste like they've been watered down, and what ingredients do what to the beer.
After the tour, or as a part of the tour, we got to taste three Samuel Adams beers. First was Boston Lager which is a good, quality lager. The second one was Octoberfest which seems like an upgrade to Boston Lager and it is sold more than any other Sam Adams beer if you consider only the days that the beer is on sale, Octoberfest being sold only around this time of the year. The last beer was also the best one, Red Brick. The beer got it's name from the red brick buildings that are everywhere in Boston and of course from the color of the beer. The most interesting thing about this beer is that you can only get it from tab and only in Boston. It seems that people take pride from being from Boston and Samuel Adams is using that pretty well in its marketing and brand building.
After the tour we decided to balance our day and went from a Boston alcohol sanctuary to a sanctuary of knowledge, Harvard. The whole campus area is huge and we only visited a small portion of it but still I think we got a good climpse of the atmosphere there.
We also visited a Harvard bookstore which was hard to forget as it had Harvard flags and banners everywhere in the store, I guess the students need to be reminded of where they study or maybe it's just for the tourists.
The final stop of the day was the most important place in Boston, Fenway Park. Even early on when we were planning the trip we decided that we would go see a baseball game since neither of us had ever seen one.
Since baseball is such a huge thing in Boston, I think we made a good choice with the Red Sox, just too bad that they lost but from what I've heard, it's pretty common. The Red Sox had just returned from a long road trip so the stadium was full and the atmosphere was great.
Everybody seemed to be wearing something from the Red Sox store so we decided to try and blend in with the locals. Don't know if it worked but at least we tried.
Day 6 / 9/08/2012 / Boston, MA - Salem, MA - [Mohawk Trail] - Deerfield, MA - Greenfield, MA - Bennington, VT - Middleville, NY
On Saturday it was time to get back on the road.
We first headed just north of Boston to hunt some witches in Salem. We didn't see anyone flying with a broom but then again we didn't wait for the sunset so maybe after it there would have been more supernatural things to spot. We did visit the Salem Witch Museum which had interesting information about the famous witch hunts of 1692.
After Salem we set out to route 2 and the Mohawk Trail which was, for me, the best part of the road trip so far, at least when it comes to the sceneries. Almost the whole trail is surrounded by big forrests and huge hills and rivers, or a river. It's just a beautiful place that would be great for hiking and canooing and just outdoors activities and we can recommend this trail to everybody who is interested in the above mentioned things or to anyone who likes driving in smaller, devious roads in hills and forests. Unfortunately the weather was rainy almost the whole time so we couldn't enjoy the sceneries as much as we would have liked.
On the trail we stopped to a souvenir shop just to buy something to drink but we ended up spending over an hour there talking to the very nice shopkeeper.
After spending longer on the Mohawk trail and because we had to readjust the pressure of our tires, problems using psi and a lousy air compressor, we didn't arrive to our campground until 1am. Still we put up our tent for the first time and slept pretty well on our new air mats and in sleeping bags.
Day 7 / 9/09/2012 / Middleville, NY - Herkimer, NY - Syracuse, NY - Farmington, NY
The KOA Herkimer Diamond campground was at an awesome location, right next to a river. The campground seemed like the kind of place you could easily spend more time in with lots of activites possible.
After doing some shopping in the local Walmart we headed out for today's main attraction, Dinosaur BBQ, in Syracuse. Those of you who have watched Man vs. Food might recognize the place. And it was at least as good as it seemed on tv.
The ribs were amazing, the meat almost fell of the bones, by far the best ribs I've ever had and maybe ever will.
-Riku
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