We didn’t write about Boston visit in detail in the previous two posts on New England trip. Our daughter joined us on this trip from New York City, as we mentioned earlier. We had flown to Boston at night on Oct. 2, and she took an early train to Boston the next day. Then three of us went to the Quincy Market to have a quick lunch there first. After lunch, we started our Freedom Trail walk from the Faneuil Hall, a middle point of a 2.5 mile-long path from Boston Common to Bunker Hill Monument. The trail connects many historic sites in Boston. We toured USS Constitution, built-in 1797, and the oldest commissioned ship in the world. Although it is designated as a museum ship, it can still sail with its own power. We were impressed by the complexity and size of the vessel built more than 200 years ago. Once we reached Bunker Hill, we turned around and walked back to the ferry stop next to USS Constitution to ride a ferry back to downtown. We finished the other half of the trail from the Faneuil Hall to Boston Common. It was the first time any of us had completed the Freedom Trail entirely. Felt tired, we found a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown and had a delicious Chinese dinner. We picked up our rental car the next day and headed out to Acadia National Park.

On Oct. 11, we drove back to Boston and returned the rental car. We preferred to take public transportation as we stayed in downtown Boston. At night we had a lovely dinner in Little Italy. The next morning, we visited MIT and Harvard while our daughter was working from the hotel. For some reason, both campuses were not very impressive to us this time. But we had a delicious lunch in a Chinese Restaurant nearby MIT. In the afternoon, we dropped off our daughter at the Amtrak station first, and then we did a walk around the bay. We were glad to have her on this trip. She was a good travel companion and had fun to travel with. Although we live more than a thousand miles away from each other, we always found a way to spend some quality time together throughout the year. 

The two-week New England trip was ending. The journey to the east coast was incredible; glad to meet our friends and fulfill our long-await dream to visit Acadia National Park. On Oct. 13, we visited Boston Public Garden in the Back Bay area in the morning. We flew home in the afternoon.