Saturday 22 September 2012

Massachusetts, with friends


Pit stop number 3. Massachusetts. 2 childlike friends - Lineng and Ragu.
Lineng and Ragu



Arriving from London, I have been waking up at 2am and then getting out of bed at 5am.



A beautiful moment would await - the horizon evolved from darkness and the sky slowly turned from pink to orange before the sun popped out.


I did a bunch of non-touristy things with my hosts:


Photo credit: Lineng








and visited a lot of places as a tourist (many thanks to Lineng & Ragu for planning and driving me around!):
- Plymouth, where the first settlers first arrived in the USA on board Mayflower in 1620 (there is a 1620 stepping stone on display but it may not have been the real thing that the pilgrims stepped on)
Stone which pilgrims which have stepped on when they disembarked from Mayflower





- Boston and Harvard (they have some really expensive art works!)
Auguste Rodin, Eternal Idol
Claude Monet,
Charing Cross Bride: Fog on the Thames
Having a picnic next to
Henry Moore's Large Four Piece Reclining Figure

- Provincetown, the tip of Cape Cod, where sand dunes, sharks and whales can be seen. The sand dunes were left behind by retreated glaciers 16,000 years ago and the dunes and coast lines have always been shifting with the water and the wind, seconds by seconds over time.


- the Sandy Neck Marsh, where a variety of plants and animals thrive. The gulls would find clams in the marsh area and drop them from height on to the road to feed on the meat. 
Salt spray rose





- Heritage Museums and Gardens, where there is an automobile museum, a carosel and American art museum and a Whimsical Gates exhibition
Flume Fountain
1910 Cadillac



Angela Rose and Lauren Miklavic
Welcome to our world
Being a tourist was really hard work - we did so many jump shots and cheesy tourist poses, it was quite tiring. I have not appeared in as many photographs in my rtw trip thus far.

My favourite jump shot - 青蛙跳与水上飘




To my childlike friends.

*Photo credit: All photographs of Lineng and me were taken by Ragu*






4 comments:

  1. Thank you....at least you didn't write childish friends :P

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    1. It's a really fine line. I must confess I did contemplate, Mrs P... phwahahahahaha

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  2. i really really like that shot of the rays from the rising sun casting a shadow of you on the computer.....

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    1. Thanks! It is only possible if the sun rises (very important!) and if your dining and living area remain EMPTY. Please do not clutter with too much furniture!

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