Cape Cod and More

Hello Friends,

We are enjoying our trip; right now we are in Provincetown, Cape Cod.  This, if you don’t know is at the very tip of Cape Cod — all the way to the end!  It is also a very fun little town with lots to do!

We are staying at a small hotel, 8 Dyer Hotel — seven rooms, 5 up, 2 down.  It does have a shared living room, a pool, a spa and includes breakfast down the hill.  It’s owned by a couple of wonderful guys who go out of their way to make your stay just perfect.  Our room even includes a parking space — a real prize in Provincetown.

 

You know John, he has to include a map of where we are in all stops:

We stopped on our drive in from Boston at Hyannis for our first serving of fried clams — they were great!  We ate outside and we ALMOST cold :). It was heaven.

On our first day we just shopped our way half way down the Main Street, with breakfast and dinner on each end.

We found the t-shirt shop that Jim Musumeci had recommended — John found three t-shirts!  What a great shop!  The Cotton Company, I think.  We had a swim in the hotel pool.  It was still warm enough to get out — the last day perhaps!  Then dinner at the icon — The Lobster Pot — wonderful boiled lobster — and a silly John!!!

 

The flowers at the pool were beautiful and gigantic!

And then the skies turned ugly…..and it poured!

On day two we drove to the other end of Commercial Street, the main drag and eventually found a parking place a few blocks away.  Then we shopped the street from the other end.  Of course we had to stop and Ben and Jerry’s.

One of the interesting things about Provincetown is that it is the first place that the Pilgrims stopped when arriving in the new world…..but they couldn’t find fresh water and then proceeded to Plymouth.  But below is Pilgrims Tower.  One can climb to the top for a great view — we did not!

At the end of our second day we dined at Fanizzi’s.  Set on the water, we had another great table and more great food!

For our last day we made some plans to do things different from shopping.  We first went to the Provincetown Art Museum.  There was some great art with lots of impressionistic influence……and a nice sculpture garden.

Then we drove back to an art shop that we had visited yesterday.  John indulged me; I had fallen IN LOVE with two gigantic pieces of art!!!!  We did not get the 4′ x 6′ size, but the smaller 3′ x 4′ size (not so small).  They are signed, limited editions of 25 of the original and already sold originals…..at least one is already sold.  I’ll let them speak for themselves; the artist is Jo Hay.  She is lovely and the works are fabulous!!!!

It was something to celebrate — we are both excited to own these!

Then we drove to our next activity:  Art’s Dune Ride.  We drove over the biggest dunes I’ve ever seen…..the Texas coast being the ONLY ones I’ve ever seen.  There are a number of “shacks” on the dunes, buildings that have been there since before the property became a national park.  There were lots of great views.

That’s Pilgrims Tower in the background, above and below:

We drove to Truro…..alledgedly to the vineyard…..but we stopped at a chocolate shop on the way.  Then we went to the lighthouse, Cape Cod Highland Lighthouse.  It’s one of the oldest lighthouses in the country, commissioned by President Washington in 1796!!!

We drove back  and I stopped to take a pic of Provincetown from the road with the tide out, then a group of Adirondack chairs along the road:

We ended our Provincetown stay with a final lobster dinner at Mac’s:

This has been a great stop.  Neither John nor I have ever been to any of the places we are seeing on this trip.  Tomorrow we take the high speed ferry to Nantucket.  More later!

Beth