{"id":19562,"date":"2022-11-27T04:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19562"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T17:27:44","slug":"travelling-the-50-states-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/travelling-the-50-states-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling The 50 States \u2013 Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical order, we continue today with the 6th state to be added to the Union: Massachusetts<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong> Massachusetts
\nJoined the Union:<\/strong> 1788
\nVisits:<\/strong> 6<\/p>\n

The Bay State has been a more recent travel destination, with all six visits coming within the past five years.\u00a0 In what I’m sure is completely unrelated news, Angelina has been attending Boston University since 2018.\u00a0 This visit total would have been at least one trip larger, as I had plans to bring Michael in April of 2020, but the whole pandemic thing kind of put the kibosh on that.<\/p>\n

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My first visit to Massachusetts came in August of 2017, when I took a weekend trip to Boston to see the White Sox take on the Red Sox with Danny and Michael.\u00a0 We arrived in Boston on Saturday morning, heading straight from the airport to the Museum of Science, where we spent most of the morning.\u00a0 After a quick breakfast,\u00a0we headed to our hotel, which was located in the medical district. \u00a0We checked in and relaxed for a bit, before deciding on going for ice cream prior to heading to Fenway Park.<\/p>\n

The game went about as you would expect. \u00a0With James Shields on the mound, the White Sox did not put up much of a fight. \u00a0We were sitting down the left field line, with a good view of the Green Monster. \u00a0The seats, which may or may not date back to the stadium\u2019s opening in 1912, were not really designed for people well over 6 feet tall, so there was a lot of uncomfortable shifting as our knees were smooshed into the seats in front of us.<\/p>\n

The next morning, we went out in search of breakfast once again before gathering up our belongings and checking out of the hotel. \u00a0Our first stop was just down the street, at Harvard Medical School, where we posed for pictures.\u00a0 From there, we headed to Skywalk Boston, their version of the observation deck at Sears Tower. \u00a0It was only on the 50th floor, so the effect was a little different, but we did get to see the majority of the area. \u00a0From there, over to the harbor to see the Boston Tea Party museum. \u00a0The two-hour experience took us through the town meeting where the \u201cattack\u201d was planned, on to the boat to throw the tea in to the harbor, and then through a movie and other artifacts from one of the most famous events in American history.\u00a0 From there, it was off to the airport for the flight back home.<\/p>\n

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My next trip came the following year, when I returned to Boston in late October to celebrate birthdays with Angelina.\u00a0 I arrived on the Tuesday before our birthday, enjoying a brief tour of BU and a nice dinner at Fogo de Chao with Angelina before heading over to the House of Blues to see Garbage.\u00a0 The next day I took a tour of Fenway Park prior to Game Two of the World Series, before heading out to Cambridge to look around Harvard before heading home.<\/p>\n

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Just over a month later, I returned to Boston with my mom to see Angelina\u2019s first synchro competition on Cape Cod and an ice show by the BU Figure Skating Club, seeing many of the same BU sites as my last visit.<\/p>\n

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In October of 2019, I once again travelled to Boston to see Angelina for our birthday dinner.\u00a0 Unbeknownst to me, she had suffered a concussion the day before, so she was busy for most of the day.\u00a0 After chilling in the hotel for a bit, I headed over to campus for a late lunch before waiting for her at a protest I happened across, trying to stop hate monger Ben Shapiro from coming to campus for a speech.\u00a0 After dinner, she headed back to her dorm to rest, and I left early the next morning to return home.<\/p>\n

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After a two-year hiatus thanks to COVID, my next trip to Boston came this past May for Angelina’s graduation.\u00a0 Danny, Michael, and I flew out on Friday and spent Saturday sightseeing around Boston with the family.\u00a0 Graduation was Sunday morning, which we topped off with a dinner out on Sunday night before heading home on Monday.<\/p>\n

My most recent visit came earlier this month, as birthday celebrations were finally allowed to restart.\u00a0 I arrived late on Friday night, and then spent Saturday with Angelina and Emily, including a trip to the Museum of Science and a return visit to Fogo de Chao.\u00a0 Sunday morning. they picked me up from the hotel and drove me to the airport, bringing my latest visit to an end.<\/p>\n

Will I return?\u00a0 I have to say yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3268],"tags":[275,8568,7542,8110,8844,298,10230,1663,2415,183,2147,7540,3443,5652,1522,3824,7536,258,3465,7541,49],"class_list":["post-19562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-arm","tag-ben-shapiro","tag-boston-tea-party-museum","tag-boston-university","tag-corona-virus","tag-dlm","tag-emily","tag-fenway-park","tag-fogo-de-chao","tag-garbage","tag-harvard","tag-harvard-medical-school","tag-house-of-blues","tag-james-shields","tag-mdm","tag-mom","tag-museum-of-science","tag-red-sox","tag-sears-tower","tag-skywalk-boston","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19574,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19562\/revisions\/19574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}