July 20

Our 2 month journey is coming to a close.  We've really seen diverse areas and people and it's been an exciting experience.  Tomorrow we fly home and we expect nothing noteworthy so this will be my final post of this trip.  We awoke around 3:30am because our bodies were convinced it was 9:30 am as in Amsterdam, but we managed to drift off an on until 5:00.  It was overcast in Boston and we walked the Freedom Trail, a self walking tour through the historic North End of Boston where many of our Revolutionary War events took place.  We saw the Old North Church where the 2 lanterns were hung in April 1775 for the famous "One if by land, two if by sea" proclamation.  We also crossed the bridge to Charlestown and toured the USS Constitution, aka Old Ironsides", saw Paul Revere's house and several other historic places.  We stopped at an Italian restaurant for lunch and both of us had a delicious 1 1/4 pound chilled Maine lobster.  We wandered back towards the hotel and went through Fanuel Hall and other historic buildings in the area and then, after 5 hours of wandering, returned to our room to put our feet up and watch some of the British Open.  In a while we'll go out for a light dinner.  Tomorrow we fly Delta to Orlando and go home to 2 months of mail.

THE END