Like most of our trip, the weather was
amazing, it was bit chilly for swimming in the ocean (I hadn’t planned on it
anyways). We rearranged my trip plan a
bit and stopped at the Adams National Historical Park on our way out to the
Cape. The visitor center was located in an office building in Quincy, MA. It
took us a while to figure out where to go and park. I had planned to do my own
self tour of the places but that wasn’t allowed. We had to pay $15 for a tour.
That’s fine but it was a two-hour tour! That really cut into my Cape Cod time.
OH well. The first site the trolley took us to was the birthplace. President
John Adams and President John Quincy Adams were born in houses that were
literally right next to each other. Back in the day the houses were surrounded
by farm land but now they are built around. It was interesting learning about
both presidents.
The second stop on the trolley was Peacefield
which was acquired by John Adams. The tour started in the library which was
built in a separate building by John Quincy after the senior Adams died. It was
a lot of books! The main house was very interesting as 95% of the items
belonged to the Adams family. It was interesting looking at the globes that the
Senior Adams had. This was the one of the times Dylan’s death hit me hard
because this is something I would have sent him a snapchat.
After that we headed out to the beach and the
Cape Cod National Seashore. I have been wanted to go to Cape Cod for as long as
I knew it existed. I was surprised at how different it was from what imagined.
I imagined miles and miles of beaches on both sides of the road. I saw a lot of
trees instead. LOL! When we got closer to P-Town, what I imagine was came true
and that was cool.
Because it was off-season, we lucked out and
didn’t have to pay for the beaches. That was nice but the water was very cold
(I expected that). We stopped Coast Guard Beach first. After that we stopped at
Nauset
Lighthouse and Highland Lighthouse. We saw
Race Point Lighthouse of in the distance. I got some nice pre-sunset pictures
which were nice, but we should have stuck around for the actual sunset because
it was amazing! We saw it on our way back to our hotel. Bummer.
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